Friday, 2022
ALL FILM SCREENINGS ARE VIRTUAL WEDNESDAY 12 PM to THURSDAY 12 PM
BLOCK 1
Some Way Out
Animation (1 min) UK
Directed By: Zoe Croft
Written By: Zoe Croft
Produced By: Zoe Crofy
Synopsis: Short animation film made durning lockdown.
The Amazing Airwalker
Animation (6 min) USA
Directed By: Steve McClean
Written By: Steve McClean
Produced By: Steve McClean
Synopsis: When a young boy is upset after being ignored by his idol, his loyal pet bird seeks revenge.
Crusoe
Animation (8 min) USA
Directed By: Shane Acker
Written By: Shane Acker
Produced By: Shane Acker
Synopsis: Crusoe is the sole survivor of an expedition to find a habitable planet in the nearest solar system to Earth. Every day is a struggle to survive, but with the help of a frustrating yet lovable alien friend, they have a fighting chance.
Pancake Panic!
Animation (8 min) USA
Directed By: David Filmore
Written By: David Filmore
Produced By: David Filmore, Lila McLaughlin
Synopsis: An errant pancake toss unleashes a whirlwind of unforeseen comedic consequences. Murder, mayhem, and maple syrup wreaks havoc for a group of strangers in a series of interconnected stories.
The Forbidden Zone
Animation (11 min) USA
Directed By:Zach Tolchinsky
Written By: Zach Tolchinsky
Produced By: Candace Hammer
Synopsis:Dumont, a botanist, in a world saturated by a toxic fog that destroys all life forms. On a night when all seems lost, a nymph crashes outside Dumont’s bunker. Gathering the wounded Nymph, Dumont risks his life to return the glowing creature to the peak of the red mountain.
The Cat
Animation (13 min) USA
Directed By:Mary Apick
Written By:Mary Apick
Produced By: Mary Apick
Synopsis:A happy little girl is selling flowers on the street…. until her world is enveloped by a malevolent darkness. She is forced to run for her life as the darkness consumes everything – art, education, religion, society, and even the people. This is a parable about life in Iran since the Revolution.
BLOCK 2 at 3:15 PM
Gliding
Short Documentary (3 min) United States/Iceland
Directed By:Mika Aberra
Written By:Haraldur Unason Diego, Mika Aberra
Produced By:Gabor Harrach, Meredith Ruskin, Felipe Ambra, Mika Aberra
Synopsis:“Every pilot needs a purpose. Without a purpose for what you do, it becomes meaningless and your joy suffers.” This is the story of Haraldur Unason Diego, also known as the “volcano pilot” in Iceland.
Changing the Disciple
Short Documentary (14 min) United States
Directed By:Kamelya Alexan
Written By:
Produced By:Gina Marino-Kalish, Kamelya Alexan
Synopsis:Shango Johnson, a southside Chicago gang leader who had been influenced by gang life at an early age. After finding his love for yoga and faith, he left his violent past behind to help the youth of Englewood flourish and to find meaning to his new life.
Portraits Of A Jazz Artist: Innokenty Ivanov
Short Documentary (18 min) USA
Directed By:Michiel ten Kleij
Written By:Michiel ten Kleij
Produced By:David E Richardson, Jr
Synopsis:An exploration of the Jazz music life of a Ukrainian Jazz Vibraphone artist living and working in Russia
Missile from the East
Documentary (91 min) UK
Directed By:Justin Stokes
Written By:Ray Battersby, Justin Stokes
Produced By:Mike Wells, Nick Taussig
Synopsis:The life of world champion motorcycle rider Ernst Degner and his incredible 1961 escape from Communist East Germany, finding freedom for his family and changing the motor industry forever.
BLOCK 3 at 3:45 PM
A Bird Flew In
Feature (95 min) UK
Directed By:Kirsty Bell
Written By:Dominic Wells, Elizabeth Morris
Produced By:Ben Charles Edwards
Synopsis:When Lockdown is imposed and film production shuts down, the cast and crew are sent home – alone.
BLOCK 4 at 4:45 PM
“Continue”
Feature (115 min)Unites States
Directed By:Nadine Crocker
Written By:Nadine Crocker
Produced By:Nadine Crocker, Anthony Caravella, Jay Seals
Synopsis:A girl suffering from depression is forced to get her life together when she is taken involuntarily to a mental institution. She finds unlikely friends, unwavering love, and a life she never imagined possible. All to find out some decisions can’t be undone, you only get one life.
BLOCK 5 at 5:45 PM
The Pastor´s Wife (Pastorin vaimo)
Short (15 min)Finland
Directed By:Arttu Kapulainen
Written By:Arttu Kapulainen, Leo Honkonen
Produced By:Arttu Kapulainen, Leo Honkonen
Synopsis:“The Pastor’s Wife short film is a dark comedy about ethics within positions of power.
Actress Roosa Heinonen is heading for her first lead role in a historical drama film called The Pastor. Arriving to the film set, she confronts an unpleasant surprise.”
The Grand Bolero
Feature (90 min)Italy
Directed By:Gabriele Fabbro
Written By:Gabriele Fabbro, Ydalie Turk
Produced By:Fulvio Biavaschi
Synopsis:In this Covid-era Italian thriller, Roxanne, a gruff middle aged pipe organ restorer struggles to control her obsessive attraction to her new 20 years old mute assistant.
BLOCK 6 at 6:15 PM
“Just In Time”
Short (25 min)USA
Directed By:Christopher Martini
Written By:Christopher Martini, Kristi Anderson Ornstein
Produced By:Kristi Anderson Ornstein, Christopher Martini, Jackson George
Synopsis:Justin lives a comfortable life until his past issues start to emerge and leads him to set out to find his birth parents. What he discovers is not what you expect. Approaching the innermost cave, Justin is given a glimpse at the inner demons that have been surfacing, and what could destroy him later in life.
Not to Forget
Feature (84 min)USA
Directed By:Valerio Zanoli
Written By:Valerio Zanoli
Produced By:Valerio Zanoli
Synopsis:After a life of little scams, a self-centered millennial is sentenced to take care of his grandmother, who is affected by Alzheimer’s. As he realizes the extent of her wealth, the protagonist gets closer to the treasure he’s been looking for.
BLOCK 7 at 6:45 PM
Soul and Life
Short (7 min)USA
Directed By:Francisco Infante
Written By:Francisco Infante
Produced By:Francisco Infante, Victor Ingles
Synopsis:Mischievous bandits come to grips with their future lives while on the run from the police, clashing over the meaning of love, wealth, and revenge.
Boys of Earth
Short (10 min)US
Directed By:Isaac Calvin, Seth Calvin
Written By:Isaac Calvin, Seth Calvin
Produced By:Amy Geist, Beloved Root
Synopsis: Hunter unknowingly walks into a wake. Hunter approaches the open casket at the front of the church and sees Gabriel’s body, which triggers Hunter, revealing a close, romantic relationship. Overcome with emotion, Hunter runs out of the church into the dusk.
Find The Light
Short (12 min)UK
Directed By:Abdullah Khan
Written By:Abdullah Khan
Produced By:Lucas A. Ferrara
Synopsis: Zak Anwar, a young Pakistani boy, is continually victimised and sees no reprieve. Battered from his latest attack he decides to end the suffering and attempts to drown himself, only for the critical moment to reveal a purpose worth living for.
The Stranger
Short (13 min)US
Directed By:Dan Burks
Written By:Dan Burks
Produced By:Sy Huq, Niraj Bhatia, Tracy Terrell Doyle, Tiffany Vollmer, Jacob Pena, Austin Seltzer
Synopsis: When a desperate stranger takes a family hostage, their only hope of survival is for the father to answer the stranger’s solitary demand: “Tell me who I am.” But the father doesn’t know, so he guesses. These guesses will reveal his own dark past.
SHUTTER THE DOORS
Short (13 min)USA
Directed By:Sheri Sussman
Written By:Sheri Sussman
Produced By:Antonio Cortese, Adam Rex
Synopsis: “Shutter the Doors” captures a moment in a man’s life as he deals with an unexpected loss. It is a proof of concept for the feature film, “Sam’s Place”.
Cricket
Short (18 min)America
Directed By:Chris Suchorsky
Written By:Chris Suchorsky
Produced By:Emmett James & Kevin Burns
Synopsis: A man wakes from a nightmare, only to be haunted by the sounds that inhabit his dreams.
Panorama
Short (18 min)United States
Directed By:Scott Felix
Written By:Scott Felix
Produced By:Spencer Paysinger, Leonard Williams, Jordan Orsak, JP Hughes, Dane Morck, Sy Huq
Synopsis:Sam has been in an emotional purgatory after the unexpected death of his mother. After being hit by a car, Sam is catapulted through space and time. On the other side is his Mother as she not only guides him through his life, but teaches him the meaning of it all.
PREY
Short (20 min)USA
Directed By:Joanna Koss and Drake Shannon
Written By:Joanna Koss and Drake Shannon
Produced By:Joanna Koss, Max Butuzov
Synopsis:Set in America’s heartland, PREY is a spin on little red riding hood – exposing affinity fraud through the eyes of a little girl who starts out as the prey and ends as the predator.
