Friday, 2021
ALL FILM SCREENINGS ARE VIRTUAL WEDNESDAY 12 PM to FRIDAY 12PM
BLOCK 1
TENDERE
Short, Drama (4 min) USA
Directed By: Alejandra Castro Castillo
Written By: Alejandra Castro Castillo
Produced By: Andrew Stahelin
Synopsis: SYNOPSIS HERE
UNDER THE SURFACE
Short (6 min) USA
Directed By: Kai Z Feng, James Rockford
Written By: Kai Z Feng
Produced By: Kai Z Feng
Synopsis: A lonesome boy visits a remote lake in order to silence the thoughts that consume him
BOBBY BISHOP
Short Drama (7 min) USA
Directed By: Jonathan Reyes
Written By: Brett David Stelter/Jonathan Reyes
Produced By: Brett David Stelter/Jonathan Reyes/AJ Schlegel
Synopsis: A rockstar emerges through the early 90s rock-n-roll scene in Hollywood, but his source of inspiration casts a difficult shadow on his music and legacy.
GROW OLD WITH ME
Short Drama (7 min) USA
Directed By: J.J. McDowell
Written By: J.J. McDowell
Produced By: Mike McNamara, Cary Tengel, George Karzas, Peter A. Lees
Synopsis: A threatening medical diagnosis prompts a young couple to dramatize their golden years.
LOVE YOU MORE
Feature, Drama (75 min) USA
Directed By: James Mixon
Written By: James Mixon
Produced By: James Mixon
Synopsis: A young man struggles with feelings of grief and responsibility after his girlfriend’s suicide.
BLOCK 2
CARL THE EXORCIST
Short, Comedy (10 min) USA
Directed By: Jordan McKittrick
Written By: Jordan McKittrick
Produced By: Jordan McKittrick
Synopsis: When young priest, Father Carl, gets called by a terrified family to help their possessed daughter, he enlists the help of his spiritual doula friend to perform a good, ol’ fashioned exorcism. The only problem? Neither of them knows what they’re doing.
GHOSTED
Short, Comedy (15 min) USA
Directed By: Tracie Laymon
Written By: Tracie Laymon
Produced By: Tracie Laymon, Alex Lake, Alyssa Suede, Joseph D. Reitman
Synopsis: A woman with a lot of baggage falls in love with a man haunted by his past. Literally.
ALTA VISTA
Feature, Drama (88 min) USA
Directed By: Joe Clarke
Written By: Joe Clarke
Produced By: John Rex Potts IV, Alexander Harstrick, Rob Van Dam, Ray Chao
Synopsis: A screenwriter struggles to cope with the loss of his father, while getting himself entangled in Hollywood’s underworld.
BLOCK 3
BREAKFAST
Short, Drama (9 min) USA
Directed By: Nick Martinez
Written By: Barnaby Dallas & Nick Martinez
Produced By: Barnaby Dallas, Nick Martinez, Jessica Olthof
Synopsis: Breakfast is an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s short story that was his inspiration for The Grapes of Wrath. Its message is simple and timeless: can you be a kind to others even when you have little to nothing yourself?
CONTACT HIGH
Short, Drama (10 min) USA
Directed By: Scarlett Redmond
Written By: Scarlett Redmond
Produced By: Megyn Norbut, Scarlett Redmond
Synopsis: A grieving mother meets a recovering addict, and without ever speaking, he brings her back to life.
ALL-IN
Short, Drama (13 min) USA
Directed By: Jesserey Tugas
Written By: Jesserey Tugas
Produced By: Hillary Freedman
Synopsis: A Las Vegas bartender and a casino security guard try to help a young girl find her gambling father.
BLUE
Short, Drama (17 min) USA
Directed By: Ziad Foty
Written By: Jeffrey Brown & Ziad Foty
Produced By:Lisa Thrasher
Synopsis: Stuck somewhere between his idyllic life and his haunting memories, all Blue wants is to go fishing with his son. His son Daniel is everything to him, most importantly the person who makes him forget the difficulties of his own troubled childhood of poverty.
EARLY LIGHT
Short, Drama (17 min) USA
Directed By: Ted Schneider
Written By: Sean Patrick Higgins
Produced By: Sean Patrick Higgins, James Brown III, Johnny Moreno
Synopsis: A 24-hour glimpse into an Equine Therapy Program where two Wyoming veterans turn to the healing power of horses to battle their PTSD. Allen and Sam find themselves on a path to self- destruction. Sometimes the only one who hears our cry for help is the last one we expect to be listening.
OH, MIGHTY OCEAN!
Short, Drama (17 min) USA
Directed By: Nathan Xia
Written By: Nathan Xia
Produced By: PRODUCER NAME
Synopsis: Nathan Xia & Po Wei Su
MOONWATER
Short, Drama (18 min) USA
Directed By: William Tyler Wiseman
Written By: William Tyler Wiseman
Produced By: Mark Wiseman, Lisa Mamazza, Lj Duey
Synopsis: An alcoholic working to get back on his feet wants to teach his teenage niece the lost family tradition: moonshining.
BLOCK 4
TELLING TIME
Short (6 min) USA
Directed By: Daniel Talbott
Written By: Samantha Soule
Produced By: Kip Kroeger, Will Pullen, Samantha Soule, Addie Johnson Talbott, Daniel Talbott
Synopsis: Ten months into the pandemic, day is for sleeping and night is for wandering alone and aimless on the East Side of Los Angeles. A young man reminisces about the loss of a great love, his tidal thoughts spilling out like water. A spare, meditative study on the unending isolation of Covid19.
ESSENTIAL WORKER
Short, Drama (8 min) USA
Directed By: Ramy Gheit
Written By: Bahget Abdalmalek – Ramy Gheit
Produced By: Ramy Gheit
Synopsis: Marc is infected with Coronavirus and cannot stop working for economic reasons, which leads to the death of another person and Marc himself.
COME MIDNIGHT
Short, Drama (13 min) COUNTRY
Directed By: Shira Rosenzweig
Written By: Shira Rosenzweig
Produced By: Kate Carpenter, Shira Rosenzweig
Synopsis: A husband and wife’s last goodbye on the brink of moral collapse. Come Midnight is a tale of love, loss, lives saved and lives taken. It defies expectations while foreshadowing a sociopolitical nightmare right around the corner.
WESLEY
Short, Drama (14 min) USA
Directed By: Travis Andrade
Written By: Travis Andrade
Produced By: Travis Andrade, Jon Brewer, Valeria Gualdi
Synopsis: When a young boy encounters a troubled teen with a 3D printed gun the boy desires to possess one of his own. WESLEY explores the impact of a pervasive gun culture on the developing psychology of an eleven-year-old boy.
KEPLEY
Short, Drama (20 min) USA
Directed By: Michael Grant, Stephanie Katherine Grant
Written By: Michael Grant, Stephanie Katherine Grant
Produced By: Elizabeth Mitchell, Michael Grant, Stephanie Katherine Grant
Synopsis: A neo-noir thriller centered around veteran detective, Gillian Kepley. During Kepley’s investigation of a troubling missing persons case, hidden truths from her past are uncovered. The case pushes her beyond her limits and forces her to confront mistakes from her burdened life.
SKY
Short, Drama (20 min) USA
Directed By: Lance Childers
Written By: Lance Childers
Produced By: Caleb Gonzalez, Lance Childers
Synopsis: A young pianist struggles to find relief from his severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
YOU’RE FAMILY NOW
Short, Drama (20 min) USA
Directed By: Ryan Mack
Written By: Ryan Mack, Logan Mack
Produced By: Maria Grace Greco
Synopsis: A newlywed couple visit the husband’s inherited childhood home for the first time. After the husband tells his wife about a mysterious family curse, things take a turn for the worst.
JUST BREATHE
Short, Drama,Sci-Fi (21 min) USA
Directed By: Mike Bayman
Written By: Mike Bayman
Produced By: Mike Bayman
Synopsis: JUST BREATHE follows a young woman (Grace Fulton) having to overcome her demons in an effort to save herself and her sister (Lou Lou Safran) against the backdrop of a global phenomenon and those looking to take advantage of it.
BLOCK 5
TOUGH GUY
Short, Drama (10 min) United Kingdom
Directed By: Jackie Mahoney
Written By: Jackie Mahoney
Produced By: Jackie Mahoney, Christina Morelli
Synopsis: Alex, a self-proclaimed Lothario, finds his sense of identity at conflict with his desire for a deeper emotional connection.
STAND UP! LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES
Feature, Comedy, Drama (89 min) Germany
Directed By: Timo Jacobs
Written By: Timo Jacobs, Sam Martin, Federico Avino
Produced By: Producer Timo Jacobs, Thore Vollert
Synopsis: Charlie Schwarzer’s great career in comedy just won’t take off as planned. On top of it all the love of his life, Emilie separates from him and is involved in a car accident.But does this mean ‘game over’ for Charlie? The answer is: no.
His motto is “Stand Up!”
BLOCK 6
THE TOXIC PIGS OF FUKUSHIMA
Documentary, Short (35 min) USA, Japan
Directed By: Otto Bell
Written By:
Produced By: Otto Bell, David Carrico, Adam Paulsen
Synopsis: The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 triggered a tsunami, nuclear meltdown and mass evacuations in Fukushima Prefecture. Today, as part of a Government push to encourage resettlement, local hunters have been enlisted to dispose of radiated Wild Boars.
NUCLEAR FOREVER
Documentary, Feature (94 min) Germany
Directed By: Carsten Rau
Written By: Carsten Rau
Produced By: Carsten Rau, Hauke Wendler
Synopsis: Germany is turning away from nuclear power in 2022. Yet the country’s nuclear nightmare goes on: with umpteen thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste and the hazardous dismantling of power plants which will take decades.
BLOCK 7
BIG TOUCH
Student, Drama (4 min) USA
Directed By: Christopher Tenzis
Written By: Christopher Tenzis
Produced By: Gabrielle Cordero
Synopsis: An Afro-Surrealist story about a giant woman and a tiny man who through the power of touch, experience an unexpected transformation.
THE FEET WITHOUT THE MOUTH
Student, Comedy (4 min) Canada
Directed By: Mathieu Gauvreau
Written By: Mathieu Gauvreau
Produced By: NSCAD
Synopsis: A man wakes up one morning and finds out something essential is missing.
THE HAT
Student, Comedy (6 min) USA
Directed By: Michael Lazovsky
Written By: Michael Lazovsky
Produced By: Michael Lazovsky; S.P. Taylor
Synopsis: An intern in-training is faced with the difficult order to remove his old hat. “THE HAT” is a coming of age tale about what we’re willing to sacrifice or throw away in order to grow up and belong.
THE FLEXED ARM HANG
Student, Comedy (7 min) Canada
Directed By: Findlay Brown
Written By: Findlay Brown, Adriano Magnifico
Produced By: Findlay Brown
Synopsis: A young boy attempts to get a silver medal in the most dauting of middle school tasks, the flexed arm hang.
RUNNER’S HIGH
Student, Drama (10 min) USA
Directed By: Thelonius Serrell-Freed, Sheldon Donenberg
Written By: Thelonius Serrell-Freed, Sheldon Donenberg
Produced By: Thelonius Serrell-Freed, Sheldon Donenberg, Austin Shelton, Laith Zuaiter
Synopsis: Grappling with the burden of loss, a drifter unintentionally becomes engulfed in the reckless lifestyle of a group of bohemians. Through a series of events, he is forced to confront his trauma as his haunted past and unconventional present collide.
TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR
Student, Drama (12 min) China
Directed By: Shiyue Xu
Written By: Shiyue Xu
Produced By: Shiyue Xu, Bin Wang
Synopsis: Throughout Tommy’s life, the song “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” has undergone many changes that mirror his journey through the different stages of his life.
MUST LOVE PIE
Student, Drama (13 min) China
Directed By: Patrick Clement
Written By: Patrick Clement
Produced By: Patrick Clement, Alanna Goodman, Ridghaus
Synopsis: A lonely man finds a love connection
CARAVAN
Student, Drama (14 min) United Kingdom, USA
Directed By: William Michael Anderson
Written By: William Michael Anderson
Produced By: William Michael Anderson, Neil Anthony Clements
Synopsis: The film centers on an outcast in a rural English community who draws the attention of a vengeful mother after a chance encounter with her two young boys.
AFTER LAUGHTER
Student, Drama (17 min) Belgium
Directed By: Spencer James Bogaert
Written By: Spencer James Bogaert
Produced By: Spencer James Bogaert
Synopsis: A man who feels like the things of life are coming to an end after his sister passes, gets unexpected news… He inherits his sister’s pet: her parrot, Coco. The attraction between the animal and the man is explored intuitively while trying to cope with the impossibility of their harmony.
LAND OF PYRITE // LAND OF GOLD
Student, Short (18 min) USA
Directed By: Stephen Nigro
Written By: Stephen Nigro
Produced By: PRODUCER NAME
Synopsis: Abby Urban & Madison Stevens
