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Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
Student Film
Producer(s): Gabriele Fabbro
Director(s): Gabriele Fabbro
Writer(s): Gabriele Fabbro
Cast & Crew: Derek Andrew Ramsay, Ydalie Turk, Maryna Kovalevska, Velvet Rhodes, Don Baldaramos, Isabela Valotti, Syuzanna Avetisyan, Meave Thompson Osgood
Run Time: 3 minutes
Synopsis: Derek Andrew Ramsay, Ydalie Turk, Maryna Kovalevska, Velvet Rhodes, Don Baldaramos, Isabela Valotti, Syuzanna Avetisyan, Meave Thompson Osgood
Instinct
Student Film
Producer(s): Stephen Burchell
Director(s): Gavin McFarland
Writer(s): Gavin McFarland
Cast & Crew: Blaine Maye, Travis Lee Eller
Run Time: 6 minutes
Synopsis: During a hunting trip with his overbearing father, Jason is given the opportunity to prove himself a man.
Defining Moments
Student Film
Producer(s): Rachelle Henry, Tanya Stoecklein, Mark Stoecklein
Director(s): Rachelle Henry, Conrad Wrobel
Writer(s):
Cast & Crew: Rachelle Henry, Christian Hutchinson, Kaitlyn Dias, Antonio Robles, Kelsi Umeko, Curtis McGann, Kiyo McGann, David Bacci
Run Time: 8 minutes
Synopsis: What are the defining moments in a relationship? A cinematic journey through the highs and lows in the life and love of three couples.
THE LAST SILENCE
Student Film
Producer(s): Jacky Song, Jason Wang
Director(s): Jacky Song
Writer(s): Jacky Song
Cast & Crew: Debby Gerber, Coty Galloway, Rebecca Evans
Run Time: 12 minutes
Synopsis: A psychotic artist hides her daughter’s dead body in the garage, dresses up for her and rapes his ‘innocent’ wife after she accidentally murders her own daughter. Unexpectedly, suffering excessive trauma and physical assault, the hopeless wife chooses to suicide after executing her beloved husband.
Crossroads
Student Film
Producer(s): Marvin Nuecklaus, Jerry Terhorst, Giorgio Daveed
Director(s): Marvin Nuecklaus
Writer(s): Marvin Nuecklaus
Cast & Crew: Aubrey Reynolds, Joe Lopez, Wahayn Inello Clayton
Run Time: 12 minutes
Synopsis: When a young woman is interrogated, she must relive the traumatic events of a brutal crime in order to discover the assailant’s true identity.
Laughing Branches
Student Film
Producer(s): Missy Malek, Oliver Page
Director(s): Missy Malek
Writer(s): Missy Malek
Cast & Crew: Missy Malek, Tom Hanson, Leo Suter, Ellie Turner, Georgie Hallier
Run Time: 14 minutes
Synopsis: When a theory about parallel universes causes a struggling actor, Joe, to be anxious about his decisions and future, we watch the different outcomes of the same conversation about the multiverse between him and his girlfriend, in different universes, and the way this one conversation results in vastly different futures for the two characters in these parallel universes.
A Chick Flick
Student Film
Producer(s): James Moore
Director(s): Lucy McKendrick
Writer(s): Lucy McKendrick & Jarret Rosenblatt
Cast & Crew: Sandy Olsen & Jessica Porter
Run Time: 14 minutes
Synopsis: A young woman is forced to reconnect with her hippie mother in order to euthanize their beloved pet chicken after it is mauled by a fox.
Professional Cuddler
Student Film
Producer(s): Professional Cuddler
Director(s): Mika Orr
Writer(s): Mika Orr & Miki Bencnaan
Cast & Crew: Itamar Borochov, Gloria Bess, Dana Ivey (The Addams Family, Home Alone 2)Itamar Borochov, Gloria Bess, Dana Ivey (The Addams Family, Home Alone 2)
Run Time: 16 minutes
Synopsis: A young Israeli man is about to meet his long-distance lover for the first time– while pursuing his dreams in NYC playing the trumpet by day and working as a Professional Cuddler by night.
Will they be able to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds?
faery
Student Film
Producer(s): Sofia Rosinsky
Director(s): Alexis Rosinsky
Writer(s): Alexis Rosinsky
Cast & Crew: Tessa Ferrer, Sofia Rosinsky, William Ostrander
Run Time: 18 minutes
Synopsis: An immortal child fights to understand the ageless struggle between mothers and daughters. Faery is a poignant and mysterious drama from 14 year old Writer/Director Alexis Rosinsky.
My Grandfather’s Memory Book
Short Documentary
Producer(s): Colin Levy
Director(s): Colin Levy
Writer(s): Colin Levy
Cast & Crew: Colin Levy, Ron Levy
Run Time: 4 minutes
Synopsis: A personal reflection about an unusual sketchbook that captures a lifetime of memories, connecting three generations through drawings, writings and dialogue.
The Last Man You Meet
Short Documentary
Producer(s): Deana Levett
Director(s): Chris Bone
Writer(s): N/A
Cast & Crew: Gregory B. Levett, Sr.
Run Time: 5 minutes
Synopsis: “The Last Man You Meet” was inspired by the title sequence from HBO’s “Six Feet Under” and offers an exclusive look inside the funeral business. Driven by original music and the gravelly voice over of a third-generation mortician reflecting on his life, the short portrays the everyday only a few choose to experience.
The Mukuru Art Boyz
Short Documentary
Producer(s): Angela R. Pashayan
Director(s): Angela R. Pashayan
Writer(s): Live footage, no script.
Cast & Crew: Mongo Karanja, Ras Kiambi, Bobby Karanja, Ibrah Otieno, and Kevin Lyon
Run Time: 26 minutes
Synopsis: Five untrained artists living on the streets of Nairobi, Kenya form a family and grow up together creating incredible pieces of art that no one sees. They do not have permits to sell to tourists so they create art for the love of art itself while living amidst the darkness of the Mukuru Slum. Follow the stories of their lives and how they survived together from childhood to young adult. See their struggles and triumphs while viewing their beautiful art in the slum setting of Mukuru.
Unknown Distance
Documentary
Producer(s): Gordon Clark, Marleah Stout
Director(s): Gordon Clark
Writer(s): Herman Forstman, Gordon Clark
Cast & Crew: Douglas Brown, Mike James, Eric Darling, Aaron Riekenberg, Chris Tomlin, Dan Lopez, Mike Bernison, Mirwais Zakhlwal
Run Time: 94 minutes
Synopsis: Without a crew, carrying only a video camera and a sudden and compelling commitment to understand and document their story, filmmaker, Gordon Clark, takes us on a journey with Marine Sniper, Sgt. Douglas Brown, across America, filming and bearing witness to the stories of this returning combat vet and his fellow soldiers. How do they fit back into a society that supported them when they enlisted, but became ambivalent when they returned to a country they killed to defend?
Bloom
Sthort
Producer(s): Paul Joseph, Mark Haapala
Director(s): Paul Joseph
Writer(s): Kendall O’Rorke
Cast & Crew: Savannah Kennick, Oliver Vaquer, Kendall O’Rorke, Hannah Jelinovic
Run Time: 20 minutes
Synopsis: Bloom follows Annabelle, an inexperienced model, during her first professional shoot. Though young, she possess untapped potential that captures the interest of Jean, a well-known fashion photographer. Everything seems to be going smoothly until Jean’s assistant, Olivia, arrives at the studio. As Olivia questions Jean’s decision to shoot a model of Annabelle’s caliber, Annabelle’s confidence takes a hit. How far will she allow herself to be pushed in order to prove her worth?
Destination: Dewsbury
Feature
Producer(s): Kate Dow, Jack Spring
Director(s): Jack Spring
Writer(s): Aaron Nelson (writer), Jack Spring, David J. Keogh, John Spring, Jonathan Marks (story by)
Cast & Crew: David J. Keogh, Matt Sheahan, Dan Shelton, Tom Gilling, Maurice Byrne, Jane Hollington
Run Time: 98 minutes
Synopsis: Four middle aged men, joined only by their childhood friendship, take a calamitous road trip across the UK to visit their dying friend for one last time. Rude, crude and damm right funny, Destination: Dewsbury mixes ‘The Inbetweeners’ schoolboy banter with a dollop of fast paced storytelling and heart wrenching truths.
After the End
Short
Producer(s): Jonathan Reyes
Director(s): Jonathan Reyes
Writer(s): Jonathan Reyes
Cast & Crew: Danelle Von, Brett David Stelter
Run Time: 4 minutes
Synopsis: A husband decides how he’ll remember his wife after she dies.
Pause
Short
Producer(s): Zach Olson, Cara Alvey, Mitchell Rosenthal, Joel Auernheimer, Bobby Asa
Director(s): Ryan Glauser
Writer(s): Ryan Glauser and Cassandra Nicholson
Cast & Crew: Aaron Ginn-Forsberg, Cara Alvey, Lakin Kell, Charley Grace, Jason Isaak, Andy Cooper
Run Time: 6 minutes
Synopsis: When faced with an imminent nuclear threat, a family reminisces about simpler, happy times in order to make peace with their devastating reality. Pause.. It’s not too late.
Julianne
Short
Producer(s): Jason Michael Berman, Taylor Shung
Director(s): Braden Friedman
Writer(s): Braden Friedman
Cast & Crew: Margarita Levieva, Joshua Close, Alex McKenna
Run Time: 11 minutes
Synopsis: After following her ex with another woman, Julianne shows up at his apartment to try and put their relationship back together, but after a series of self-induced injuries, Julianne is on the cusp of emotional and physical exhaustion.
EverLife
Short
Producer(s): Zac Wolf, Steven Wilson
Director(s): Steven Wilson
Writer(s): Steven Wilson
Cast & Crew: Steven Wilson
Run Time: 12 minutes
Synopsis: After an untimely death, Francis begins a new chapter as a digital copy. His wife and teenage daughter can only interact with him using Augmented Reality Glasses. While his wife wishes she could be closer to him, his daughter wants nothing to do with him. Francis, on the other hand, will do anything to keep his family together.
the first of many
Short
Producer(s): Elizabeth Guest and Pamela Guest
Director(s): PAMELA GUEST and ELIZABETH GUEST
Writer(s): Pamela Guest
Cast & Crew: Elizabeth Guest, Lawrence Michael Levine, Krisitin Slaysman
Run Time: 13 minutes
Synopsis: A student actress goes on her first audition with disastrous results.
Bless Me Father
Short
Producer(s): Dawn Mac Allister
Director(s): Paul M Horan
Writer(s): Paul M Horan
Cast & Crew: Francis Magee, Phelim Drew, Glynis Casson
Run Time: 16 minutes
Synopsis: In a small Irish town where secrets are rare, a local man goes to church to confess his.
17 Locust St
Short
Producer(s): Daniel Wyland , Jordan Miller, Dallas White , Amanda Shafer
Director(s): Daniel Wyland
Writer(s): Daniel Wyland
Cast & Crew: Dallas White, Paul Cottman, Amanda Shafer, Sonya Wyland
Run Time: 17 minutes
Synopsis: Detective Sarah Carver and her in-training partner James Brilant want to ask the loner Darcell Kerry a few questions about a recent hit-and-run. Little do the detectives know they will find themselves trapped in Darcell’s own dark agenda, and become victims of a twisted mind from which there seems no escape.
Latched
Short
Producer(s): Dale Andrews
Director(s): Justin Harding & Rob Brunner
Writer(s): Justin Harding
Cast & Crew: Alana Elmer, Bowen Harding, Peter Higginson, Jarrett Siddall
Run Time: 17 minutes
Synopsis: A choreographer pursues creative inspiration at a cottage retreat while attempting to wean her demanding toddler — and unknowingly awakens a vile fairy corpse in the process. When she discovers the creature’s terrifying intentions, she will have to put her creativity to good use to lure the repugnant beast.
People of the Forest: Orang Rimba
Short Documentary
Producer(s): Isaac Kerlow
Director(s): Isaac Kerlow
Writer(s): Isaac Kerlow
Cast & Crew: SUKUR, GUNAWAN, and KUDUNG
Run Time: 14 minutes
Synopsis: In the short span of three decades the nomadic People of the Forest, Orang Rimba in their dialect, have watched their ancestral forests vanish. Oil palm plantations have replaced much of the tropical peatland rain forests in Jambi, Indonesia, and the Orang Rimba have nowhere to go.
Glass Temples
Short Documentary
Producer(s): Jared Ruga & Amanda Stoddard
Director(s): Amanda Stoddard
Writer(s): Amanda Stoddard
Cast & Crew: N/A
Run Time: 32 minutes
Synopsis: Three brave siblings embark on a journey to reclaim their childhood, confront the man who stole it, and try to change an entrenched system of patriarchy in the LDS Church by repairing their broken family. This is a fractured portrait of the shattered lives of sexual abuse victims. As Kristy and her siblings tried to piece together their lives, their father lived an unscathed new life in full admission of his guilt for thirty years. This film documents how several children were put within the hands of a recognized child abuser by a trusted system of moral correction.
The White House Documentary
Documentary
Producer(s): Lars Schlecker
Director(s): Fabia Mendoza
Writer(s): Fabia Mendoza
Cast & Crew: Ryan Mendoza, The Last Poets, Thomas ‘Hitman’ Hearns, Rosa Parks’ family, Breezy Caprice
Run Time: 75 minutes
Synopsis: Rosa Parks’ house is set to be demolished, a man battling cancer is stuck between two abandoned houses, and the partial removal of a house in Detroit where dilapidated houses abound, somehow creates a scandal. In a time in which cartoon characters rule the world, values are shifted and lost. Ex-patriot artist Ryan Mendoza walks into a battlefield of racial tension, and political rot as he attempts to bring a home resembling the one he used to live in as a child in America, to where he now lives, in Berlin.
The White House Documentary follows his interaction with the inhabitants of Detroit, from Gregg Johnson who donated a house for his art project on Stoepel Street, to Rosa Parks’ niece Rhea McCauley who allowed him to ship a house her aunt had lived in overseas. Ironically, from a country set on building a wall, the city in which the Rosa Parks’ house would be rebuilt was itself reborn of a wall being taken down. The White House Documentary is an offbeat homage to Detroit, a city unwilling to surrender.
Cuban Heart
Short Documentary
Producer(s): Adriana Blanco
Director(s): Jake Ajamian
Writer(s): Adriana Blanco
Cast & Crew: Eddy Blanco, Claudia Blanco, Eddy M. Blanco, Alex Blanco, Adriana Blanco
Run Time: 33 minutes
Synopsis: In the year 2000, after almost forty years of exile in California, Armando Blanco was faced with the decision as to whether he should stay true to his moral duty, thus refusing to set foot again in communist Cuba, or to embrace the love he had for his dying brother. Armando found his way back to Cuba for one day to find himself once again amongst his own, immersed in hours full of joy and song. It was an unforgettable experience in the company of his loved ones who from that moment on, he would never see again.
Jamaica Man
Documentary
Producer(s): Michael Weatherly, Tiffany Grant
Director(s): Michael Weatherly
Writer(s): n/a
Cast & Crew: Nigel Pemberton
Run Time: 65 minutes
THE LESSON
Short
Producer(s): Joey Medina & Yancey Arias
Director(s): Joey Medina
Writer(s): Joey Medina
Cast & Crew: Yancey Arias / Jesus Carus / Jacqui Pinol
Run Time: 8 minutes
Synopsis: A man has a motional breakdown when he loses his wife and daughter to a texting and driving accident. He takes the law in his own hands to teach the other driver a lesson he will never forget.
Scent
Short
Producer(s): Nate Griffin, Hope Ammen
Director(s): Eric Staples
Writer(s): Eric Staples
Cast & Crew: Mykie Fisher, Hayden Wyatt, Tina Manera
Run Time: 8 minutes
Synopsis: A dying man receives a kidney transplant that saves him but takes the life of the donor, leaving him in a perpetual search for permission to move on. After some time, a new woman enters his life and urges him to move out of his apartment. On moving day, he unboxes a memory that, once again, triggers his grief, but this time he’s given an ultimatum.
Warrior
Short
Producer(s): Caroline Parker Boyd and Meg Gordon
Director(s): Gene Pina
Writer(s): Gene Pina
Cast & Crew: Erinn Ruth, Oliver Josephson, Aimee Fortier, Karen Lynn Gorney
Run Time: 14 minutes
Synopsis: A disabled Army combat vet struggles to raise her three boys while dealing with the loss of her leg and substance abuse.
BIKINI BLUE
Feature
Producer(s): JULIUSZ MACHULSKI
Director(s): JULIUSZ MACHULSKI
Writer(s): JULIUSZ MACHULSKI
Cast & Crew: LIANNE HARVEY, TOMASZ KOT, RUBY BENTALL, LEE ROSS, TILLY GAUNT, LECH MACKIEWICZ
Run Time: 84 minutes
Synopsis: BIKINI BLUE is a UK based Post War drama, where an English wife and a Polish husband look to build a new life in Britain, only for his past to come back to haunt them.
Dora, a young English woman, starts her old, worn-out motorcycle to visit her Polish exile husband in the asylum after his failed suicide attempt. It won’t be just a peaceful and romantic evening – we are following Dora’s trip into the heart of her husband’s mystery.
Anine Bing
Short Documentary
Producer(s): Omayma Ramzy
Director(s): Sophia Banks
Writer(s): N/A
Cast & Crew: Anine Bing
Run Time: 4 minutes
Synopsis: World-renowned Fashion Designer Anine Bing discusses her journey into the fashion world from a teenager into building, designing and running her own brand.
Dear Erik
Short Documentary
Producer(s): Amy Slotnick
Director(s): Bryan Wetzel, Ben Starkman
Writer(s): none
Cast & Crew: Erik D. Madden
Run Time: 9 minutes
Synopsis: Erik D. Madden fell in love with the silver screen at a young age and in the 1980s decided to write to his favorite stars from Hollywood’s Golden Age. When a few actually wrote back, what started as a lark quickly became an obsession. In an age where instant digital communication is the norm, Erik sticks with the classic – a pen and paper. With his collection closing in on 20,000 letters and signed photographs, Erik tells his story for the first time.
VIF
Documentary
Producer(s): Fabrice Sopoglian, Samuel Boutboul
Director(s): Didier Beringuer
Writer(s): Didier Beringuer
Cast & Crew: Christian Audigier, Snoop Dogg, Michael Madsen, Stephen Dorff, Don Ed Hardy, Johnny Hallyday, Daymond John
Run Time: 99 minutes
Synopsis: VIF is a one-of-a-kind cinematic documentary, taking us through the introspective life journey of fashion designer Christian Audigier. He created the brand ‘Ed Hardy’, based on the designs of famous American tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy. After being diagnosed with MDS, an aggressive type of blood cancer, Christian is forced to accept what lies ahead of him.
