2013 Winning Films
Feature Film
1st Place
May 24th, 8pm
House Of Good And Evil:108 min
Review: http://www.mountainx.com/article/50157/House-of-Good-and-Evil
Directed by: David Mun (San Franxcisco, CA)
After a family tragedy in the chaotic city, Chris and Maggie Conley, in a last-ditch effort to save their dying marriage, purchase an isolated home in the deepest woods, to which they quickly discover evil has a key.
Feature Film : Shown on Friday Nights Throughout the Year
Official Selection Winners
Bad Ideas
Ryan Martin
Waterville, Ohio
A Stranger has awoken in the ultimate reality, where past, present, and future exist simultaneously, to learn that to find himself he must find a woman named Love; all while trying to outsmart an evil bartender and a handful of odd characters that manipulate the Stranger in their attempts to discover the mysterious and apocalyptic power that lies inside him.
Partner
Brian Maurer
Columbia, MO
Three complex stories come crashing together as Detectives Jeffreys and Kline investigate the murder of a young woman within her own home, a discovery that leads to an important and deadly revelation. Dr. Lesley Hopps, a respected psychiatrist, struggles to hide a blackmail letter and a drug addiction from her husband. Rick Fuller, a patient of Dr. Hopps, copes with the return of his brother Sam, fresh from a two year prison sentence. The two plot a new crime together with their new Partner: a mistake, and a deadly decision.
Plastic
Jose Gomez
Geneva, IL
Albert Mullin is on the prowl, again, This time he finds himself haunted down by his own ravaging demons. His house, a dumping ground of horrors, is no longer the safe haven he thought it was, and his new victim, Sarah Wilson, may be his last.
Short Drama
1st Place Winner
Mousse (40 min) Short Drama Winner
Directed by: John Hellberg (Sweden)
What could be easier than robbing a small tobacco shop on the outskirts of town? It's
during the year's biggest horse race event and the betting center Washington's
Tobacco looks like the ultimate hit for some fast cash. Mousse is a man of pride and
principles and is fed up with living as a second-class citizen. But what happens when
he faces principles different to his own?
Short Drama
Official Selection Winners
1-5pm Saturday, May 18th
Lil Tokyo Reporter: 30 mim
Jeffrey Chin, San Francisco, CA
1935 Los Angeles, community leader Sei Fujii uncovers the corrupt activities of his community's underground mafia. He must choose between saving the face of his deteriorating community and confronting the issues head on through his newspaper. Based on a true story.
The Takeover : ? 27 mim
Shequeta Smith, Sherman Oaks, CA
An African American comic book illustrator and her Caucasian, fashion designer best friend, envy each others dating lives until a hippy barista serves them an exotic espresso that causes them to swap bodies for 24 hours.
Sum-Ba-Kok-Jil: 49 min
Hanuk Lee, Seoul, Korea
Some people never repent their sins.
Crossing the River ? (15 min)
Emilie McDonald, Sunnyside, NY
Inspired by a true story, 'Crossing the River' is about a young white boy who is influenced to commit a hate crime against a biracial girl who is his friend. The film explores the points of view of both the victim and perpetrators, and seeks to reveal how someone can be influenced to do something morally unspeakable.
Box (15 min)
Chris Dolman, New York, NY
A Surreal Comedy, Box is about people craving intimacy. How they suffer when intimacy is lost. How they succeed when they live inside of it. And how, possibly, the ones who are good at it can help the ones who are not so good in this unconventional story. Shot on the Sony F65 camera, starring Mink Stole, Dylan Chalfy, Lou Liberatore and Marsha Dietlein Bennett.
Manfred and the Waiting Room ? (8 min)
Joel Breitman, Ontario, Canada
In a doctor's waiting room a frantic Manfred is thrown into a truly bizarre power struggle with a mysterious sociopath.
The Carrington Event (48 min)
Rob Underhill, Raleigh, NC
News of a massive solar flare goes viral. Soon after, the power is out. Phone's dead. Water taps are dry. Radio is static. Days pass with no news, just people getting more crazy. Weeks pass and an epic fight for survival has already begun.
A Family Dinner ? (27 min)
Peter Davenport, Williamstown, MA
Four adult children return home for a family dinner at their parents' New England house for the first time since the eldest son's marriage four years earlier, when something happened to keep them apart. Everyone joins in the cooking, gossip, laughter and teasing, and they all enjoy a formal dinner together until boundaries blur and tension and confrontation between the brothers lead to a shocking discovery. Exposed out in the open, this secret threatens to destroy the delicately balanced dysfunction of the family. Will this shatter their collective reality or will they go on as if this ripple under the calm waters never happened? This family is destined to repeat past transgressions and keep secrets hidden from the world, each other and themselves.
Short Drama
1-3pm Sunday May 19th
Official Selection Winners
Granted (13 min)
Cait Shull, Tallahasse, FL
Veronica s determined to cheer up her distant husband, but he won't tell her how! Then she s granted the power to see his wish, but wishes are harder than they look.
THE THINGS MY FATHER NEVER TAUGHT ME ? (7 min)
Burleigh Smith,
East Perth, WA, Australia
Melvin gives dating advice to his three-year-old son.
The Box ? (27 min)
Melanie Star Scot, Banning, CA
At the height of the civil war, two young lovers pledge their love and devotion as they plan their future together. Their lives are torn apart and dreams are shattered as tragedy shakes their world to the core. A tribute to Western North Carolina, this was filmed in the Asheville area.
Restitution ? (13 min)
Justin Miller, Avo
ndale Estates, GA
Still recovering from the recent loss of a child, architect Preston Sanders discovers that his wife has cloned their son without his consent.
My Face ? (18 min)
Ken Cohen, SC
Lacie and Josh are perfect for one another, but Lacie is not attracted to him. In order to try and make it work, Lacie agrees to let Josh wear a custom made mask designed with the features of her past lovers. But Josh puts some of himself in it to make her subliminally attracted to him.
Repulsion (7 min)
Josh Jones, Broken Arrow, OK
Home is where the heart is. But what happens when that heart is broken?
Closing Bell (5 min)
Janek Ambros, Los Angeles, AL
It is September 2008 and as Congress contemplates a 700 billion dollar bailout for the banks, the market is rapidly crumbling and a broker must decide where to allocate his money with 4 minutes until closing bell.
Cold Ground ? (22 min)
Ali Pour Issa, Tehran, Iran
It depicts apocalypse concentrating on the last days of a family's catastrophic life in a prevalent winter (nuclear winter) in Iran in 2012. The notions of void and terror are dominant in the film. (The nuclear catastrophe or winter is not specifically mentioned in the short film because of the hard political situation in Iran. However, its implications exist throughout the film like their imprisonment in their claustrophobic place.) Basically, the figures are indifferent in their hard circumstances and are not able to communicate with each other.
Consignment ? (16 min)
Justin Hannah, Lexington, KY
The year is 1954, and a lonely young woman yearns for the return of the man who left her alone. When an encounter at a consignment shop leads to the discovery of an ominous box, it seems that happiness may finally be within her grasp. However, a glimpse into another world reveals that all may not be as clear as it once seemed....
Just a Favor (6 min)
Linda Brieda, Germany
Isabella, a 14-yr old, is bullied in school. A classmate offers his help in return of a favor. Before she knows it, she is caught in a net of hideous secrets.
Blindfolded (17 min)
Eric Choi, Los Angeles, CA
A recent victim of an abusive kidnapping battles to overcome a psychological trauma which prevents her from removing her blindfold by carrying out the death wish of her suicidal caretaker.
Documentaries
10am - 1pm Saturday May 18th
Western North Carolina Winner
Over Home: Love Songs from Madison County (40min)
Winner: WNC Achievement Award
Joe Cornelius & Kim Dryden, Winston-Salem, NC
This film explores the life of Sheila Kay Adams, a ballad singer from western North Carolina. She started learning the old love songs on her Granny's porch when she was five, and never looked back. Sheila's family's musical heritage, rooted in traditional Appalachian life, has sustained her, giving her strength to face the loss of that culture, the death of her husband, and the emotional trauma that followed. Still struggling to overcome immense personal loss, Sheila teaches the old love songs to a new generation, insuring that this old mountain heritage lives on while giving younger people an age-old source of power and healing - music. Over Home shows us that while American traditions like this may be dying out, people like Sheila will fight that trend until their last breath. Ballad singing has changed, but through the lens of Sheila's experience, we see there is hope for the future.
Documentaries
10am - 1pm Saturday May 18th
Official Selection Winners
Bartleby ? (10min)
Gerard Amsellem, South Orange, NJ
Melville meets the New Wave in this low-budget reinterpretation of a classic story of rebellion and its effect on others. A word processing operator joins a small law office and forever changes the lives of those around him just by doing one thing: nothing.
The Sum Total of Our Memory (40min)
Barbara Klutinis, San Francisco, CA
An ode to memory: Couples affected by a partner's recent diagnosis of Early Alzheimer's come to terms with their changing roles.
Take Back What They Took ? (27min)
Carlie Huberman, Raleigh, NC
documentary that speaks out on the after affects of sexual assault and what we as a society can do to help make the process of recovery easier for survivors of sexual assault.
Afghan Massacre ? (50min)
Jamie Doran, United Kingdom
Documentary on the convoy of death in Afghanistan.
Allies Matter (8min)
By ZealSource for Public Schools of North Carolina
highlights several NC youth who have experienced bullying as a direct result of their sexual orientation
Animation and Experimental
Official Selection Winners
Screen Saturday May 18th from 6pm to 9pm and Sunday May 19th from 4pm to 7pm
Dinner Table (3min)
Song E Kim, Los Angeles, CA
The dinner table, where we sit everyday to satisfy the basic of needs, can become the most awkward place to be with one simple conversation and mounting emotion.
Fruitless Efforts - Fruit of the Womb (5min)
Oren Robashkin, Minneapolis, MN
Apple is trying to lead a normal life, but is being held back by his friends.
Oh! Natural (2min)
Becky Bush, NY, NY
An acorn becomes all it can be.
Dust Bunnies ? (12min)
Katarzyna Kochany, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
a short romantic comedy about the reality of happily ever after. When newlyweds Adam and Eve move into their dream home, dust bunnies threaten to ruin their marriage. Love conquers all... but will it conquer dust bunnies?
King Tigermore In Strawberry Fields (3min)
Tunde Reid-Kapo, Las Vegas, NV
It all begins in Strawberry Fields, when eight-year-old Kimi, the boy who plays chess in his dreams, falls asleep during a chess match in Central Park, and imagines that the white king piece in his chess game has come to life as King Tigermore. Yamie Chess Ltd presents a delightful children's animation.
Retrocognition ? (17min)
1st Place Animation
Eric Patrick, Evanston, IL
A dystopian sitcom reanimated from the narrative residue of Golden Age radio dramas.
Plague ? (9min)
Rachel Jordan, Woodlands, TX
Animation of a flea or mosquito-type plague.
Experimental
Official Selection Winners
SYSTEM PREFERENCES ? (34min)
Anya Belkina, Boston, MA
SYSTEM PREFERENCES is an animated documentary that tells the story of computer pioneer Bashir Rameyev, who is on a quest to achieve something extraordinary for his country in order to prove that he and his family are not 'the enemies of the people'. The result of his struggle is the invention of a computer used to launch Sputnik into space and, as a consequence, to spur the headlong development of Russian and American microelectronics. The second narrative woven into Rameyev's story is organized around a central argument that USSR's 1969 decision to curtail national computer research in favor of cloning American products had tragic consequences not only for Russian computer science, but for the global community of computer users today.
Emeralds of the East ? (13min)
Timothy Rudisill, Cullowhee, NC
Set in the early 1940's rural Appalachia, a single mother and her son are put to the test when unforeseen consequences force the boy to make a decidedly adult decision.
When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl (11min)
Jim Haverkamp, Durham, NC
Starting out as an ordinary nine year old girl, young Walt Whitman is soon catapulted into the world with all her senses ablaze. Combining drama, dance, puppetry, and oddball humor, the film is a sometimes funny, sometimes sad rumination on growing up as a 'sensitive kid.'
Last of Our Kind (13min)
Reed O'Beirne, Seattle, WA
Weaving together film, music and poetry, Last of Our Kind transforms the memory of a lost love into a ritualistic incantation of longing. Action is exaggerated and time seems to blur, as the lover's tale plays-out poetically into a modern interpretation of the Persephone myth.
Forsaken ? (3min)
Josh Jones, Broken Arrow, OK
The most devastating pain one can feel is being lost, alone, and a forsaken soul. But is this pain, this tormenting sorrow, the end of one s humanity? This is the story of one man's heart-stricken thoughts of a lost love and life after a tragic accident.
Cardboard (10min)
Tara-Nicole Azarian, Charlotte, NC
Homelessness in America is a national tragedy. If faced with adversity, what would you do to keep your family together?
Transit ? (5min)
Jeffrey Curtis, Seattle, WA
Dancers in seattle experiment with interior and exterior locations.
Sick ? (2min)
Joshua Yates (Iowa City, IA)
Examination of a sick mind.
Race ? (3min)
Matt Town, Gainesville, FL
Experimental dog race.
SP#6 ? (3min)
Carl Knickerbocker, Oviedt, FL
Experimental film & animation.
Dreamcatch ? (17min)
Sieara Bicking, Asheville, NC
Experimental narrative.
Faces ? (15min)
Said Najmi, Jordan
The deserts of Petra, Jordan: Home to Mfadi and his Bedouin family, where he is struggling to decide whether to stay in his humble home or move to the city (civilization)
May 31 ? 7pm"CRAZYTOWN" A Visual Music Album ? (1 hr, 2min)
Ryan Kralik, Matt Powell, Jared Sagal, Dane Boles (Diamond, OH)
'CRAZYTOWN' A Visual Music Album By Ryan Kralik featuring Dave Krusen (Pearl Jam, Candlebox), Rick 'The Bass Player' Rosas (Neil Young/Willie & Lukas Nelson), Michael Ronstadt (Lost In Holland, Linda Ronstadt) and others
2012
Friday, May 25, June 22 2012
Feature Film Winners
7:30 10:00 pm
Festival kickoff & hors d'oeuvres
Siberia, Monamour (105 min)
See Review of this film by Ken Hanke
Directed by: Slava Ross (Moscow, Russian Federation)
Siberian taiga. Late autumn. In a deserted village, there lives an old man & his seven year old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the neighborhood, but one of these dogs becomes Leshia's best friend. Sometimes Uncle Yuri brings food to them. Once on his way back from the village Uncle Yuri is attacked by dogs & perishes. Ivan & Leshia stay on without any food supplies.
June 1st 8pm
The Duck Hunter (90 min)
Directed by: Egidio Veronesi (Modena, Italy)
A film about memory, memories of the past and memories of the protagonists. Memory gets back, through the images of the film, to those who were its custodians, following new and unexpected paths.
June 8th 8pm
A.L.F.(96 min)
Directed by: Lescure Jerome (Paris, France)
What happened, that 24th of December? This is what officer Chartier wants to find out. To understand, he will have to go back 48 hours earlier: Franck's Christmas eve. Franck: insignificant drama teacher, Franck belongs to a nameless and leaderless commando: the Animal Liberation Front. These characters are bound by a limitless empathy towards mistreated animals, and will have to show courage to complete a mission they have been preparing for months.
June 15th 8pm
The Boy Who'd Never Seen Rain (70 min)
Directed by: Kim Ramsay (Sydney , Australia)
The poignant portrayal of an outback Australian sheep farming family struggling to remain together despite looming bankruptcy. Neil Cobblin tries to defend his pride when it becomes apparent he's losing the battle against years of drought, and the outreach workers have arrived in town to offer a helping hand. His wife Rita begins to lose herself in the nostalgia of teenage dreams of becoming a Beauty Queen whilst their 8 year old son Danny fights to be seen as a man by his father and the school bully. This film examines the effects of depression and suicide risk in the Australian rural sector a topic which is too often ignored in the mainstream media.
June 22nd 8pm
Meherjaan (119min)
Directed by: Rubaiyat Hossain (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Meherjaan is a film about loving the Other. Meherjaan gives away with the unitary masculine narrative in order to usher in emotional multiplicity of feminine emotion and sensibility. This film critiques certain pitfalls of nationalism that create conditions to justify war, killing and violence
Saturday, May 26th 11am 4pm
Documentary Film and Commercial Film Winners
American Veterans: Discarded and Forgotten (2 parts, 1 hour each)
Directed by: Richard Polonetsky; Directed by: Gary Null, Brooklyn NY
Gary Null, PhD, explores the truth about Gulf War Syndrome, a horrific condition affecting thousands of soldiers and their families, and the disturbing secrets being hidden by the government. Hear the truth from doctors, scientists, military analysts and the veterans who are still suffering from the effects of their tours of duty while the government denies any accountability for this illness. Dr. Null also reveals the epidemic of homelessness affecting our American veterans today.
12 1pm Potluck lunch
Bring a favorite dish and join us for an opportunity
to sit down with filmmakers and film aficionados
for an exchange of ideas and edibles!
1pm
Daytona Flash Mob (10min)
Filmmaker Present for discussion
Produced by Lou Paris and Guili Schacht
600 Dancers materialize in a spontaneous dance event at the Daytona 500.
Education Under Fire (30min)
Directed by Jeff Kaufman
Produced by Single Arrow Productions and co sponsored by Amnesty International. This revealing documentary profiles the growth, struggle, and inspiring spirit of the Baha'i Institute for Higher Education. The Baha'i people in Iran have been subjected to systematic persecution, including arrests, torture, and execution simply for refusing to recant their beliefs. They are also prohibited from going to college (and blocked from many professions).
Anela en Rouge (19min)
Filmmaker Present for discussion
Cara Myers, Kansas City, MO
A touching experimental dance documentary in which Nannette Rogers Kennedy tells a story of losing her mother, who before death, promises to come back to visit her children as a Cardinal. Two weeks later, her mother keeps her promise, not only to her, but to every other member of her family, proving that our love for one another transcends the boundaries of life or death.
Its a Girl Thing: MKA, Tween Queens and the Commodification of Girlhood (60min)
Filmmaker Present for discussion
Directed by: Shannon Silva, Wilmington, NC
Since the birth of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen in 1987, the girls' tween market has evolved from almost non existent into a $43 billion dollar a year money making machine. Framed by the structure of a faux interactive website, It's A Girl Thing speaks with consumer critics, tween brand marketers, girls, moms, and educators to explore the seemingly benign cultural universe of pastel colored, hyper commercialized girl culture (and the tween queen phenomenon) to reveal the complex and contradictory messages directed at today's young girls.
Saturday May 26th:
Short Drama, Animation, Commercial and Experimental Winners
Short Drama
Wrigley and King (9 min)
Cornelius Murphy, Lynnfield, MA
A man attends his brother's funeral and reflects on a childhood memory when his brother took revenge against a neighbor for killing the family dog.
Impressions (20min)
Robert Schwartz, Los Angeles. CA
Two people who come from very different backgrounds
have inherited the struggles they face in a relationship.
Leak (29min) beni fredman, Jerusalem
7 yr old Hadar is behaving strangely and shockingly. Her father, a rich and powerful man, covers up her behavior by silencing people with payoffs and refusing to send Hadar to psychiatric treatment. Desperate, her mother secretly takes her to a clinic to undergo a futuristic and risky operation for trauma removal.
1000 grams (15min)
Tom Bewilogua, Hamburg, Germany
A film about Flesh. Flesh in all of its meanings! A story of two tragically colliding Worlds. Poor and Rich! An unadorned view on the current circumstances of our reality, while the audience is flying through society like a ghost.
Astray (15min) Evan Stroum, Tigard, OR
A man awakens alone in the forest, all memories lost.
As he retraces his steps, anxiety builds until the discovery of a dead body pushes his emotions to a boiling point as memories come flooding back.
Workers Leaving the Factory (10min)
Anna Linke, Weimar, Germany
Karin works in a metal factory performing the same monotonous tasks day after day. When a new worker arrives, it seems to be the end of this drab life.
Brotherly Love (17min)
Choice Skinner, Van Nuys, CA
Isaac, flees home to plead with his brother Elijah to help
him hide a terrible secret from Abraham, the eldest brother who is a strict disciplinarian and very religious.
Diana (15min)
Wen Cheng Yu, Pasadena, CA/Taiwan
Diana is young, attractive, smart, confident and cold. She has an affair with a married man and a fight with her student in class. Everyone makes bad decisions. So does Diana. But this time, she does it with determination.
Advanced Payment (21min)
Heath Jones, New Smyrna Beach, FL
After a drunk driver kills her son and escapes prosecution, a well to do woman seeks revenge on her own. She buys an unregistered gun from a back alley thug, who quickly recognizes her as an easy target and teaches her a hard lesson about street justice.
Caught (20min)
Elizabeth Page, Brooklyn, NY
Hannah has spent her life trying to do the right thing, but she can not catch a break, or win the sought after affection of her mother, nor the respect of her brother. Hannah finds solace in baseball from the time she is young. This family strife culminates on the ballfield during the playoffs.
Dog Eat Dog (7min)
Curtis Jensen, Thunder Bay, ON
Tony, a mafia boss, has grown tired of Fluffy, his neighbour's dog, pooping on his lawn. Instead of dealing with his grievances civilly, Tony hires Chester and Louis take the dog out. The two hit men accept the job, even though Louis feels like the job is an insult to his abilities.
Alienated (5:30min)
Piper Kroeze, North Hollywood, CA Student Entry
John is an extra terrestrial living on another planet but decides it's best for him to travel to earth to start a new chapter in his life, against the will of his father. John is
still waiting for his slahfle, a body part that grows on the forehead of each alien at a certain age, to come in, in order to regain the respect of his elders as a man.
The Light (14min)
Kajsa Ribbing, Stockholm,Sweden
It's all about love and life when an old and dying
author writes his last novel about a young couple and the games they play.
Animation
Tony's Big Score (12min)
David Provost, Emeryville, CA
Tony is just your average everyday robot until the day the entire world starts crashing in on him.
The Eater (3min)
Wally Chung, NY,NY
A man has a strange experience that ends up affecting the people around him.
X Mess Detritus (2min)
Aurelio Voltaire, NY, NY
MTV and SciFi Channel veteran, Voltaire, takes a dark look at gift giving and the negative effect it has on the Earth in this one minute Christmas parable.
Dear Sweet Emma (5:17min)
Out of Our Minds Animation Studio, NC
As the search is given up for Emma s latest husband, Tucker, a private look reveals that Emma has a secret and uncontrollable dark side.
Dinner Table (3min)
Song E Kim, Los Angeles, CA
The dinner table, where we sit everyday to satisfy the basic of needs, can become the most awkward place to be with one simple conversation and mounting emotion.
Fruitless Efforts Fruit of the Womb (5min)
Oren Robashkin, Minneapolis, MN
Apple is trying to lead a normal life, but is being held back by his friends.
Lunch (1min)
Irina Golina Sagatelian, Israel
Vlad sits in his chair, looks eagerly at his plate with a juicy fish. Suddenly someone rings the bell. Disappointed, he gets up and wonders when he can get back to his meal.
Oh! Natural (2min)
Becky Bush, NY, NY
An acorn becomes all it can be.
Experimental
Ode (18min)
Dawn Hollison, Arvada, CO
A story of Collector and Collected, Ode examines the human cycle of action and effect, and its reflection in the internal experience of recognition, regret, and remembrance. Three episodes record the phases of a woman's evolution toward a deeper understanding of her own motivations and her relation to others.
Pin (15min)
Mountains Plain, Asheville, NC
An examination of our mountain heritage.
Sixty in 60 (60min.)
Ronnie Cramer, Denver CO
Experimental art film featuring sixty one minute works of many genres, including abstract, animation, documentary, experimental, narrative, stop motion, time lapse and video art.
Commercial
Tales from the Hood (9min)
Manny Marquez, Denver, CO
In 2011, Native Eyewear descended upon Hood River, OR asking the natives to show them the ropes. The locals welcomed them, giving the crew a peek into their lives, and acting as tour guides. This documentary captures the stories of the locals, or the Tales from the Hood, as Natives like to call them.
Little Pearls (30sec)
Linda McLean, Asheville, NC
Little Pearls are 'tiny films' that open hearts and minds, inspiring authentic connection and compassionate action on behalf of al living beings
Doritos: Super Cheesy (1min)
Jen McGowan, Venice, CA
A cheesy Senator's secret obsession is exposed.
Sunday May 27:
Documentaries, Short Drama, Animation Selections1pm 5pm:
(Animation Same as Saturday)
Short Drama
Wrigley and King (9 min)
Cornelius Murphy, Lynnfield, MA
A man attends his brother's funeral and reflects on a childhood memory when his brother took revenge against a neighbor for killing the family dog.
Impressions (20min)
Robert Schwartz, Los Angeles. CA
Two people who come from very different backgrounds have inherited the struggles they face in a relationship.
Leak (29min) beni fredman, Jerusalem
7 yr old Hadar is behaving strangely and shockingly. Her father, a rich and powerful man, covers up her behavior by silencing people with payoffs and refusing to send Hadar to psychiatric treatment. Desperate, her mother secretly takes her to a clinic to undergo a futuristic and risky operation for trauma removal.
1000 grams (15min)
Tom Bewilogua, Hamburg, Germany
A film about Flesh. Flesh in all of its meanings! A story of two tragically colliding Worlds. Poor and Rich! An unadorned view on the current circumstances of our reality, while the audience is flying through society like a ghost.
Astray (15min) Evan Stroum, Tigard, OR
A man awakens alone in the forest, all memories lost. As he retraces his steps, anxiety builds until the discovery of a dead body pushes his emotions to a boiling point as memories come flooding back.
Workers Leaving the Factory (10min)
Anna Linke, Weimar, Germany
Karin works in a metal factory performing the same monotonous tasks day after day. When a new worker arrives, it seems to be the end of this drab life.
Brotherly Love (17min)
Choice Skinner, Van Nuys, CA
Isaac, flees home to plead his brother Elijah to help him hide a terrible secret from Abraham, the eldest brother, a strict disciplinarian and very religious.
Diana (15min)
Wen Cheng Yu, Pasadena, CA/Taiwan
Diana is young, attractive, smart, confident and cold. She has an affair with a married man and a fight with her student in class. Everyone makes bad decisions. So does Diana. But this time, she does it with determination.
Advanced Payment (21min)
Heath Jones, New Smyrna Beach, FL
After a drunk driver kills her son and escapes prosecution, a well to do woman seeks revenge on her own. She buys an unregistered gun from a back alley thug, who quickly recognizes her as an easy target and teaches her a hard lesson about street justice.
Caught (20min)
Elizabeth Page, Brooklyn, NY
Hannah has spent her life trying to do the right thing, but she can not catch a break, or win the sought after affection of her mother, nor the respect of her brother. Hannah finds solace in baseball from the time she is young. This family strife culminates on the ballfield during the playoffs.
Dog Eat Dog (7min)
Curtis Jensen, Thunder Bay, ON
Tony, a mafia boss, has grown tired of Fluffy, his neighbour's dog, pooping on his lawn. Instead of dealing with his grievances civilly, Tony hires Chester and Louis take the dog out. The two hit men accept the job, even though Louis feels like the job is an insult to his abilities.
Alienated (5:30min)
Piper Kroeze, North Hollywood, CA,Student Entry
John is an extra terrestrial living on another planet but decides it's best for him to travel to earth to start a new chapter in his life, against the will of his father. John is still waiting for his slahfle, a body part that grows on the forehead of each alien at a certain age, to come in, in order to regain the respect of his elders as a man.
The Light (14min)
Kajsa Ribbing, Stockholm,Sweden
It's all about love and life when an old and dying author writes his last novel about a young couple and the games they play.
2012--Awards
Commericial
Daytona Flash Mob-Antonio Parada & Guili Schacht-Daytona FL
Feature Film
A.L.F by Lescure Jerome-Paris, France
Experimental
Anela en Rouge-Cara Myers, Kansas City, MO
Short Drama
Workers Leaving the Factory--Anna Linke-Weimar, Germany
Anamation
Sixty in Sixty-Ronnie Cramer, Denver, CO
Documentary
Quest for Energy-Ryoya Terno, Tallytown, NY
2011 Audience Awards
Your favorites!
Friday, May 27 Kick-Off
1. “Wolf Call” by Rob Underhill
2. “Archer” by Erik Mauck
3. “Entertainer” by Rob Underhill
Saturday, May 28 Animation
1. “O acidente” by André Marques
2. Tie! “Deux Petites Bateaux” by Kate Raney and
”Prayers for Peace” by Dustin Grella
Saturday, May 28 Drama
1. “Archer” by Erik Mauck
2. Tie! “Wolf Call” by Rob Underhill and
“Zwischen Licht und Schatten” (Fading Away) by Fabian Giessler
Sunday, May 29 Documentaries
1. “Severing the Soul” by Barbara Klutinis
2. “Attic People” by Michael Sztanke & Bertrand Meunier
“Finding Kraftland” by Richard Kraft
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2010 Awards
Feature Films
Friday Feature Film
Saturday and Sunday Feature Films
Saturday Animation Winners
Saturday Experimental Film Winners
Saturday Short Drama Winners
Sunday Documentary Winners
Sunday Commercial Films, Outdoor Films and Sound Winners
2009 Awards:
Scriptwriting