Saturday, 2021
ALL FILM SCREENINGS ARE VIRTUAL SATURDAY 12 PM to SUNDAY 12 PM
BLOCK 1
THE TWO MISSING HOURS
Short, Drama (6 min) USA
Directed By: Jean-Claude Thibaut
Written By: Jean-Claude Thibaut NAME
Produced By: Jean-Claude Thibaut
Synopsis: Lisa is pursued by an omnipotent evil force, her father that is turning her whole world against her while it whispers a warning from the shadows:
WHO WANTS DESSERT?
Short, Drama (7 min) USA
Directed By: Venita Ozols-Graham
Written By: Venita Ozols-Graham
Produced By: Calvin Vanderbeek, Venita Ozols-Graham
Synopsis: After suffering a catastrophic event, Annie loses her entire family… but she can’t let them go. She creates a psychological house of cards that her court appointed therapist threatens to take down.
SAFE
Short, Drama (10 min) USA
Directed By: Josema Roig
Written By: Josema Roig
Produced By: Constanza Castro, Domenica Castro
Synopsis: In the middle of the night a startled little girl wakes up his brother. She’s heard a noise lurking outside, but danger often hides much closer.
WHITE MIRROR
Short, Sci-Fi (13 min) USA
Directed By: Matthew Cooke
Written By: Matthew Cooke
Produced By: Matthew Cooke
Synopsis: SYNOPSIS HERE
ACCOMPLICE
Short, Sci-Fi (15 min) USA
Directed By: Matthew Avery Berg
Written By: Matthew Avery Berg
Produced By: Rocky Ramsey
Synopsis: A man is forced to experience the memories of the person he accidentally killed.
BODY OF THE MINED
Short, Sci-Fi (15 min) USA
Directed By: Eric Jungmann
Written By: Eric Jungmann
Produced By: Eric Jungmann, Natalie Hill, Christoph Sanders, Dayne Johnson, Vasha Narace
Synopsis: A quiet, young woman moves into a new building and meets a reclusive engineer at the brink of completing a bizarre, extraordinary machine.
I AM THE DEVIL
Short, Drama (15 min) USA
Directed By: Mike Harris
Written By: Mike Harris
Produced By: Mike Harris, Bradley Wilson
Synopsis: Based on the true story of Operation Midnight Climax, a secret CIA program in which unsuspecting johns were lured by prostitutes and then subjected to nonconsensual LSD testing as well as psychological and physical torture in an effort to perfect mind control against the Soviets.
ORK
Short, Sci-Fi (25 min) USA
Directed By: Alex Popov
Written By: Bradford James Jackson
Produced By: Bradford James Jackson & Alex Popov
Synopsis: AD 613, after a brutal war, a group of vikings attempt the long journey back to their village. What
they encounter along the way is far from this world.
NIGHTWALKERS
Short, Sci-Fi (32 min) USA
Directed By: Mark Pellington
Written By: Mark Pellington
Produced By: N me ark Pellington
Synopsis: A young man searches for love and forgiveness in a sleepwalking dream.
BLOCK 2
COMMUNICARE
Short, Drama (6 min) USA
Directed By: Anthony Vazquez
Written By: Anthony Vazquez
Produced By: Anthony Vazquez , Léa Catania, Adrien Bourguignon
Synopsis: When a middle aged woman is stuck in life, she’s forced to look truly look at herself to find out what she wants from life.
PLEASE DON’T SPILL THE MILK
Short, Drama (10 min) USA
Directed By: Natasha Babenko, Omar Antonio Iturriaga
Written By: Natasha Babenko, Jahziel Chu, Omar Antonio Iturriaga
Produced By: Jahziel Chu, Omar Antonio Iturriaga, Alexius Dante Rodriguez
Synopsis: A woman’s bizarre sexual fantasy leads to her boyfriend’s heartbreaking confession, followed by distorted modern-day empathy: an instant solution for his deepest wound.
NICE TO MEET YOU
Short, Drama (11 min) USA
Directed By: Michael Landry
Written By: Kyle Russell Clements, Brandon Haynes, Michael Landry
Produced By: Brandon Haynes, Michael Landry, Elena Greenberg, Kyle Russell Clements, Tim Barnsley
Synopsis: When a recently separated couple meet up at their favorite bar, the reunion awakens feelings of bitterness, remorse and love.
THE NECKLACE
Short, Drama (11 min) USA
Directed By: Jeffrey Podany
Written By: Jeffrey Podany
Produced By: Jeffrey Podany
Synopsis: The Necklace follows the story of Miriam & a jade necklace her father gave to her as a child. The film chronicles important moments in her life relating to the necklace.
APRIL KILLS THE VIBE
Short, Drama (14 min) USA
Directed By: Bonnie McKee
Written By: Bonnie McKee
Produced By: Bonnie McKee
Synopsis: When party girl April wakes up after a rowdy New Year’s Eve with a lot more than just a hangover, she calls her partner in crime, Lola, to try to fill in the blanks. But the truth is uglier than April bargained for, and she is forced to confront her demons.
BLOOM
Short, Drama (14 min) USA
Directed By: Dawson Doupé, Ryder Doupé, Todd Tapper
Written By: Dawson Doupé, Ryder Doupé, Todd Tapper
Produced By: Dawson Doupé, Ryder Doupé, Todd Tapper, Nathan Hendrickson
Synopsis: Identical twin sisters who haven’t spoken in years reunite for a road trip after one of them tries to take her own life.
THE CALL
Short, Drama (14 min) USA
Directed By: Aisha Schliessler
Written By: Aisha Schliessler
Produced By: Aisha Schliessler, Luke Arreguin
Synopsis: A woman discovers a secret that changes everything.
WATER
Short, Drama (16 min) USA
Directed By: Brittney Rae
Written By: Brittney Rae
Produced By: Brittney Rae, Pamela Longsword, Frantzy Moreau, Eddie Mariano
Synopsis: In a dystopian Miami landscape in the late 60’s, Lucy, our lead character, is trapped in a cult-like pool club. In this world, everyone is required to choose a social group to assimilate to at the age of ten, separated by gender and arranged by skin-tone.
I AM NORMAL
Short, Drama (20 min) USA
Directed By: Olia Oparina
Written By: Anya Bay
Produced By: Anya Bay, Olia Oparina, Jimmy Gadd, Aida Lembo
Synopsis:A sane woman fakes the symptoms of a mentally unstable patient in order to be admitted into a mental institution for a secret psychiatric experiment. Inspired by the Rosenhan Experiment of 1973.
BLOCK 3
ANIMAL FOOD
Short, Comedy (6 min) Sweden
Directed By: Jonas Ljung
Written By: Jonas Ljung
Produced By: Adi Omanovic, Mak Omanovic
Synopsis: Animal Food is a dark comedy about a socially awkward man with an abnormal interest in bird food. What’s cultural acceptable to eat, and what’s not?
ARROWS
Short, Comedy (8 min) Greece
Directed By: Nikos Vittis
Written By: Nikos Vittis
Produced By: Nikos Vittis, Cinemascoop
Synopsis: In a super market, where the paths are predetermined with arrows, a young man, when he tries to reach a young woman to give her a button she missed, finds obstacles while following the directions of the arrows.
VERDICT 30001: THE COOKIES
Short, Comedy (9 min) Finland
Directed By: Henna Välkky, Samuel Häkkinen
Written By: Henna Välkky, Samuel Häkkinen
Produced By: Ville Sivonen
Synopsis: The average adult makes around 35 000 remotely conscious decisions each day. Each decision carries certain consequences – both good and bad. Even if it’s just about a box of cookies.
CAPOLINEA – THE LAST STOP
Short, Comedy (18 min) Italy
Directed By: Roberto Totola
Written By: Marina Furlani, Roberto Totola, Marco Di Marzo
Produced By: Roberto Totola, Marina Furlani
Synopsis: She is at the bus stop always at the same time, in the same place. Every day two men travel the same road to reach her. Neither of them has the courage to take the first step. Until the day when she gives a light greeting with her hand facing them.
THE APPOINTMENT
Short, Drama (20 min) O148
Directed By: Alexandre Singh
Written By: Alexandre Singh
Produced By: Natalie Musteata, Louise Palmkvist, Michael Elliott
Synopsis: A curmudgeonly novelist wakes from a nightmare to find a troubling entry in his diary: 12 o’clock at the restaurant ‘La Folie’. But whom is Henry meeting, and why doesn’t he remember making this appointment? Henry discovers that the truth is more disturbing than he could have possibly imagined.
STALIN UNLIMITED
Short (25 min) Russia
Directed By: Yury Vorobev
Written By: Yury Vorobev
Produced By: Roman Pevzner, Marina Kvan, Yulia Eremina
Synopsis: The unemployed liberal Yegor gets a job as double of the Soviet leaders. The working day goes badly, therefore he finds an extreme way out – an absurd Stalin’s “”self-promo””.
BROTHER TROLL
Short, Comedy, Drama (30 min) Faroe Islands
Directed By: Gudmund Helmsdal
Written By: Gudmund Helmsdal, Rakel Helmsdal, Torfinnur Jákupsson
Produced By: Gudmund Helmsdal, Sólvá Svartafoss
Synopsis: Once upon a time in the Faroe Islands, two lone brothers struggle to save their fragile relationship after the sudden loss of their older brother.
THREE PINTS AND A RABBI
Feature, Comedy (71 min) United Kingdom
Directed By: Richard J. Perry
Written By: Cassia Littler, Richard J. Perry
Produced By: Peter Macdonald
Synopsis: When three dazed and confused strangers wake up in a pub to a dead woman lying on the table with hefty chunks of flesh missing, they must figure out what happened to her in order to ensure they don’t meet the same fate.
BLOCK 4
THE JOURNEY OF MURDER
Feature, Drama (104 min) China
Directed By: Jun Wang
Written By: Jun Wang ,Hong Ni
Produced By: Jun Wang ,Ziwei Dai
Synopsis: Sha Tao is a village girl with mental disorders who gets involved in a money transaction of ghost marriage…
BLOCK 5
LADY OF THE SEA
Short (3 min) Canada
Directed By: Emmett Sparling
Written By: Emmett Sparling, Chelsea Yamase
Produced By: Emmett Sparling
Synopsis: There once was a lady from the sea. Simple lessons from the sea on how to live well. This is what she taught me.
PLANET EARTH CALLING ANA
Short, Drama (21 min) Sapain
Directed By: Fernando Bonelli
Written By: Fernando Bonelli
Produced By: Elena Zabía, Ginés García Millán, Francisco Benjumea, Miguel Ángel Larraya
Synopsis: One day, life detaches you from the world. Without a warning. Isolation. No more albums, no more tours or stages. Music remained inside her, and so did Juan, her love, her Earth.
ORDINARY CREATURES
Feature, Drama (75 min) Austria
Directed By: Thomas Marschall
Written By: Anna Mendelssohn, Thomas Marschall
Produced By: Daniela Praher
Synopsis: “”Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel“, Martha and Alex should have taken
Jim Morrison’s advice to heart. Only when real life comes crashing into their small self-involved world
in the shape of a little dog and its grim owner, do things get set in motion.
BLOCK 6
WORLDLINES II
Short, Drama (10 min) Spain
Directed By: Karlos Alastruey
Written By: Karlos Alastruey, Javier Alastruey
Produced By: Karlos Alastruey
Synopsis: A teenager oscillates between melancholy and happiness until both states unfold in two parallel worlds. Someone has planned to murder her.
KILLING SMALL ANIMALS
Short, Drama (11 min) Sweden
Directed By: Marcus Svanberg
Written By: Marcus Svanberg & Matilde Sköld
Produced By: Marcus Svanberg & Robert Feniger
Synopsis: This is a film about a woman who lives a seemingly rich and full life. But something seems to be missing. Perhaps a child that has died or never been born. One day something inside her snaps and she does something she never thought herself capable of. And once she’s started, she can’t seem to stop.
KNIVES&PEACHES
Short (13 min) Germany
Directed By: Adrian Daniel Botnariu
Written By: Adrian Daniel Botnariu
Produced By: Adrian Daniel Botnariu
Synopsis: After 20 years, a blind blacksmith is visited by an old friend. When a long repressed memory surfaces, it becomes clear that only one man will leave with his life.
MORI
Short, Drama (13 min) USA
Directed By: Jonathan Breaux
Written By: Jonathan Breaux
Produced By: Jonathan Breaux, Sean Kirby
Synopsis: Two men attempt to bury one’s mistake, ultimately falling into their own destiny.
BLOCK 7
THE FBI’S SECRET WAR
Documentary, Short (14 min) USA
Directed By: David Reppond
Written By: David Reppond
Produced By: David Reppond
Synopsis: “”The FBI’s Secret War”” is the first film to reveal the massive infiltration of the VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War) conducted by the FBI, exposing more details about their illegal surveillance program called, COINTELPRO.
BLOODLESS: THE PATH TO DEMOCRACY
Documentary, Feature (89 min) USA
Directed By: Bared Maronian
Written By: Bared Maronian, Silva Basmajian
Produced By: Seda Grigoryan, Silva Basmajian, Bared Maronian
Synopsis: In the course of history, only a few revolutions have been successful, let alone those without Bloodshed. in Armenia in 2018, Nikol Pashinyan, through non-violent civil disobedience protests and social media, brings down a corrupt oligarchy.
BLOCK 8
ALICE – THE BIRTHMARK GIRL
Student, Drama (4 min) USA
Directed By: Anne Wanyi Geng
Written By: Anne Wanyi Geng
Produced By: Anne Wanyi Geng
Synopsis: An imaginative girl with an ugly birthmark copes with her solitude and pain and discovers her
own universe.
STRANGER
Student, Documentary (4 min) USA
Directed By: Chloe Caufield
Written By: Chloe Caufield
Produced By: Chloe Caufield
Synopsis: A young man shares his journey with autism and how it has shaped his perception and expression of self.
THE CHESS MATCH
Student, Drama (6 min) USA
Directed By: Alisher Balfanbayev
Written By: Alisher Balfanbayev
Produced By: Claire Dundee
Synopsis: When a young Nazi soldier encounters a boy during the liquidation of a Jewish ghetto, the two form a bond over a game of chess.
CONCRETE
Student, Drama (9 min) USA
Directed By: Ryan Mercatante
Written By: Ryan Mercatante
Produced By: Angela Zaniboni, Ryan Mercatante
Synopsis: Charlie came to the bridge to end his life, but fate got in the way. Now he’s left at the bottom of the Los Angeles river basin with a choice: live or die.
DANDELIONS
Student, Drama (10 min) USA
Directed By: Taylor Leigh Aguilar
Written By: Taylor Leigh Aguilar
Produced By: Taylor Leigh Aguilar, Rio Johnson, Laura Siskoff
Synopsis: A college student navigates what it means to be alive after a sexual abuse experience realizing that answers and peace are found in the least expected of places and people.
LA CRISE
Student, Drama (10 min) Canada
Directed By: Rafaël Beauchamp
Written By: Rafaël Beauchamp
Produced By: Roxanne Lamarche
Synopsis: In the midst of 1970’s October Crisis that shook Quebec to its core, Carole, a housewife crumbling under the weight of an oppressive routine, is visited by a home seller who will turn her daily life upside down.
EL TRISTE
Student, Drama (14 min) Mexico
Directed By: Manuel Del Valle
Written By: Manuel Del Valle
Produced By: PRODUCER NAME
Synopsis: Sebastian Torres Greene, Edgar Cortes, Manuel Del Valle
SHELTERED
Student, Drama (15 min) USA
Directed By: Charlotte Rose Manning
Written By: Charlotte Rose Manning, Daniel Rubens Manning
Produced By: Charles Hayes, Jenna Kaplan, Gracie Markland, Connor McVay
Synopsis: During her stay at a public psychiatric hospital, Wren realizes she’s trapped within a deeply flawed healthcare system.
LET US PRAY
Student, Short (22 min) USA
Directed By: Devan Ford
Written By: Devan Ford
Produced By: Angela Zaniboni, Devan Ford
Synopsis: The death of a teenage girl has brought shock upon this small town. Kyle Douglas, the son of the local pastor, is shocked upon the news when a detective comes knocking on his door. Luckily for Kyle, the detective is there for his father’s guidance, not for what happened on that fatal night.
LIFE APPOINTMENT
Student, Short (30 min) Egypt
Directed By: Amr Elbehidy
Written By: Amr Elbehidy
Produced By: Amr Elbehidy high cinema institute
Synopsis: A man in his seventies suffering from loneliness blames himself for the past and gets into a life changing situation
BLOCK 9
SAMMY ADAMS, JUST SAYIN’!
Animation (1 min) USA
Directed By: Brent Bishop
Written By: Brent Bishop
Produced By: Brent Bishop
Synopsis: An animated short showcasing America’s Founding Father – and favorite brewmeister – Sam Adams on a rant about equality, America, and what it truly means to be great. Starring Kyle Kinane.
52 – A TALE OF LONELINESS
Animation (5 min) USA
Directed By: Johnny DePalma
Written By: Johnny DePalma
Produced By: Johnny DePalma
Synopsis: Far beneath the beautiful sea, a unique whale sings a song that is all his own. Inspired by the incredible true story of the 52 Hz whale.
THE WINTER
Animation (5 min) Australia
Directed By: Xin Li
Written By: Xin Li
Produced By: Xin Li
Synopsis: Walking in a snowy forest, a peasant sees a mysterious deer and goes to follow it. The deer allures him and the peasant even wants to catch it.
ON/OFF
Animation (7 min) Argentina
Directed By: Nicolas P. Villarreal
Written By: Nicolas P. Villarreal
Produced By: Alessandro Squitti
Synopsis: Endless distractions threaten to destroy creativity.
STAR-CROSSED
Animation (8 min) USA
Directed By: Hasani Walker
Written By: Hasani Walker
Produced By: Hasani Walker
Synopsis: Two aliens on different planets find a way to connect with each other, but one hopes to get closer.
KAPAEMAHU
Animation (9 min) USA
Directed By: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean hamer, Joe Wilson
Written By:
Produced By: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson
Synopsis: Long ago, four extraordinary beings of dual male and female spirit brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii and imbued their powers in four giant boulders. The stones still stand on Waikiki Beach, but the true story behind them has been hidden – until now.
THE GHASTLY FOWL
Animation (11 min) United Kingdom
Directed By: Shruti Veeramachineni
Written By: Simon Welsh
Produced By: Kate Pirouet
Synopsis: The Ghastly Fowl takes a look at where we are now and where we could go from here, focusing on responsibility rather than blame. The only way we are going to make it through this terrifying time as a species is if we work together in harmony with the planet rather than in opposition to it.
GIRL AND ROBOT
Animation (12 min) Ireland
Directed By: Joe Loftus
Written By: Joe Loftus
Produced By: Joe Loftus
Synopsis: A traumatized young girl is chased across the desert by officers of the state. On her way she meets a friendly Robot who is afraid of being left alone. As the Girl’s pursuers catch up, she and the Robot soon learn that the only way they can survive is to work together.
LESSONS FROM MY MOTHER
Animation (12 min) USA
Directed By: Aurora Jimenez
Written By: Aurora Jimenez
Produced By: Felix Martiz
Synopsis: A widowed mom and her daughter’s quirky misadventures of finding newly widowed rich men.
REMEMBER ME IN THERAPY
Animation (12 min) USA
Directed By: Jacob Mollot
Written By: Jacob Mollot
Produced By: Jacob Mollot, Chris Galassi
Synopsis: After waking up one fateful morning, George discovers that Earth has been destroyed by an intergalactic alien race/corporation called “”The Gleebloys.”” With the help of a ‘therapizing’ alien named Ruben, the two must piece together what led to the planet’s destruction.
