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Friday Dec 10th - Theater 1
FRI DEC 10th - THEATER 1 - BLOCK 1 - 12pm to 2pm
SAFE
&
WARM
SAFE & WARM
Director: Tracy Michele Tabb
Starring: Kelly's Lot
Category/Genre: Music Video
Run Time: 0:04:00
Kelly's Lot performs their song "Safe and Warm" of their album Can't Take My Soul.
ISOLATION
Director: Soheil Mosharraf
Starring: Katherine Pegova, Armin Motaei
Category/Genre: Music Video
Run Time: 0:05:06
Isolation Music Video is the story of the song by the same name, created by the artist A-Sean. A true story based on the artist's own life and a period of Isolation.
A QUEER PERSPECTIVE: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
A QUEER PERSPECTIVE: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Director: Nicole Toto
Category/Genre: Music Video
Run Time: 0:05:12
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NOSEBLEED
Director: Andrew Jonathan Smith
Starring: Lucas Button
Category/Genre: Micro Shorts Film
Run Time: 0:04:59
A man recounts a dream which has some very real effects on his waking life.
THE SHATTERING
Director: Marcus Adams
Starring: Laurie Peters, Ayden Ricker
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:08:30
Sadie tries to recollect what she remembers from one night that led to a tragic moment. As she’s trying to recollect these memories we witness her try to survive a world that lacks compassion, the feelings of someone following her, and living with a Mental Health system that doesn’t care or feel anything toward her. “The Shattering!” is an examination into why it’s important to have compassion or empathy, especially for those who are the most vulnerable fueled by its dark nightmarish atmosphere, and compellingly disturbing visuals.
RAVEN
Director: Moises Barragan
Starring: Matthew Sanderson, Gracie Lacey
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:13:00
After leaving his family behind for a decade, a young man attempts to reunite with his estranged younger sister. Things don’t go as planned, and now the line between reality and imagination severely deteriorates the young man’s mental state.
THE OCTOBER PROBLEM
Director: Robert W. Perkins
Starring: Robert W. Perkins
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:10:00
A man in the midst of disorienting change gets an unexpected wake-up call.
ECHOES OF KERBEROS
Director: Ross Kolton
Starring: Whit Spurgeon, Eric Michael Kochmer
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:09:34
A man suddenly gets a call from a stranger threatening the life of his girlfriend if he doesn't do what he’s told.
THE DEEPEST DARK
Director: Keith Randal Duncan
Starring: Justin Armstrong
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:10:53
Not knowing why, a man wakes up in a dark dank prison and is tortured over and over again, but is never asked a single question. So he finally attacks his captors to find out some answers.
THE STUCK ONES
Director: Kirk William Murray
Starring: Michael Joseph Carr, Neva Mcintosh
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:11:00
After stopping in for a quick bite at an odd sandwich shop, a Father and Daughter reunion quickly descends into a nightmare as they learn the terrifying truth of why the mannequins that inhabit the shop seem so lifelike.
FILM
FRI DEC 10th - THEATER 1 - BLOCK 2 - 2pm to 4pm
DELOS REYES
Directors: Joey Povinelli
Starring: Joey Povinelli
Category/Genre: Micro Shorts Film
Run Time: 0:03:28
Paul, a struggling writer, tries to find himself on a trip to Palm Springs. He doesn't get far.
THE SOMNAMBULIST
Director: Brandon Scullion
Starring: Kelsey Walmer
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:05:39
In this dream-like homage to the silent era, a woman who has recently begun sleepwalking finds herself on a journey through the night.
APRIL SHOWERS
Director: Caytha Jentis
Starring: Bill Sage, Lorraine Farris
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:11:39
It's April 2020; a man and a woman meet on a bench in an unusually stark Central Park while the city and its residents are grappling with life at the epicenter of the pandemic. Sirens fill the air as a constant reminder that everything has suddenly changed.
MY LOVELY MAN
Director: Francisco Roel
Starring: Meghan E. Barker, Andy Gates
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:10:00
A bigger mystery than death is the mystery of love.
THE LAST LEAF
Director: Sia Aleskovskaya
Starring: Nova Gaver, Whitton Frank
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:13:14
Haunted by dark visions and unable to protect her family, Cathy has a final chance to save her lover Sue and stand up against the mysterious gentleman that has haunted her since childhood.
YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY
Director: Vickie Rose Sampson
Starring: Philip Guerette, Katherine Flannery
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:08:14
You Drive Me Crazy is a dark comedy/thriller about a GPS who takes revenge on a cheating husband. Longer synopsis:A dark comedy thriller, “You Drive Me Crazy” is a cautionary tale about our obsessive reliance on technology. A seemingly ordinary guy, Glen, is driving when his GPS voice gives him directions that don’t quite add up. When he tries to follow his own path, the GPS computer shockingly takes control berating him for some of his life choices. Things go from bad to worse when Glen winds up in the last place he’d ever want to be.
DEATH DOESN'T LIKE ME
Director: Stephen P Daniels
Starring: Jon Ross, Andra Clark
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:29:00
When a 14 year old girl decides she wants to end it all, Death shows up and refuses to take her because he says he just "doesn't like her"
FRI DEC 10th - THEATER 1 - BLOCK 3- 4pm to 6pm
HERE I AM
Director: Kevin dmello
Starring: Luis Jose Jopez, Vinamrata Rai
Category/Genre: Narrative Feature Film
Run Time: 01:30:00
An innocent Indian nurse who comes to America in search of a better life, gets involved with the the wrong person, sending her down a dangerous path revealing dark secrets of her own.
(This is still a work in progress, Color, FX and music is in progress)
FRI DEC 10th - THEATER 1 - BLOCK 4 - 6pm to 8pm
THE SIP
Director: Paul Bestolarides
Starring: Michael Thygesen
Category/Genre: Micro Shorts Film
Run Time: 0:01:55
A man must come to terms with his past on a camping trip. 'The Sip' was shot during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. The thematic elements explore death and how loss impacts life.
THE RETURN
Director: Sol Lopez
Starring: Martina Jordan
Category/Genre: Micro Short Film
Run Time: 0:02:43
A deceased young woman tries to find her way home on Day of the Dead.
FINDING COURAGE
Directors: Kay Rubacek
Starring: Yifei Wang , Liansu Wang
Category/Genre: Documentary Feature Film
Run Time: 01:20:47
A former journalist for the Chinese Communist Party (YIFEI WANG), living in exile in San Francisco, struggles to settle into life in America while working to heal her family’s wounds from their tragic past. She is seeking justice for the murder of her sister at the hands of the Chinese authorities. Rare undercover footage of a meeting with the director of the labor camp where Yifei’s sister was killed reveals shocking admissions of torture, slave labor, corruption, and a general disregard for human life pervading the camp system today. Exclusive interviews with former Chinese Communist Party officials provide a unique insight into the hidden world of terror that many Chinese citizens live without ever knowing that life can, and does, exist with freedom outside their world.
FRI DEC 10th - THEATER 1 - BLOCK 5 - 8pm to 10pm
MONTH TO MONTH
Director: Tim Walton
Starring: Marie Finch, Jake Howard
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:17:18
When an aspiring writer rents a room in her home, a middle-aged widow's emotional journey of rediscovery begins. With Kevin's help, Diane comes to terms with the tragedies in her life and the possibilities ahead of her. Along the way, her travails become a much-needed inspiration to him. A story of love lost and dignity regained, Month-to-Month is a powerful example of how kindness can overcome loss.
SILENT NIGHT
Director: Gianna Cullen
Starring: Erika Larson, Abbey Miller
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:07:42
While spending her first Christmas completely alone, memories of last year force May to confront her grief.
TIN CAN
Director: Pat Battistini
Starring: Carlos Ragas, Kevin. E. West
Category/Genre: Narrative Short Film
Run Time: 0:20:00
J.C. came to America as an illegal immigrant when he was just a child. Now, as an adult, he's still an illegal alien but has managed to persevere and prosper working as a rodeo clown. However, after a series of unfortunate events, J.C. finds himself down on his luck and in search for a new happiness. He eventually finds it near the Mexican border but the price he pays could get him kicked out of the only country he knows.
KRIEG
Director: Jeff Fry
Starring: Heiko Obermöller, Scott Bailey
Category/Genre: Foreign Short Film
Language: French/German
Subtitles: English
Run Time: 0:39:30
Tasked with locating a French Underground transmitter, an elite German SS unit commits atrocities against their Partisan prisoners. Shamed by his involvement, one officer is compelled to leave camp and seek out the transmitter on his own hoping that, by finding the radio, he can prevent further crimes. He discovers a downed American aircraft and, in a twist of fate, finds redemption by delivering the wounded bombardier to the very enemy for whom they are searching.