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AUDITORIUM 3

SHORTS 7 - Saturday, September 14:       1pm

Le Charade

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Comedy, Psychological  / USA / 4 min.

 

A stop-motion psychological comedy set in a run-down 1950s diner. Le Charade follows the final performance of a lonely mime and the psychotic episode that ensues after his imaginary friend breaks up with him and he is forced to re-enter society

 

Director: Erika Totoro

Producers:  Erika Totoro

Writer:  Erika Totoro

 

Cast: N/A

Crew: Erika Totoro, Thaddeus Varness, Josie Howe, Will Macuch, Dahlia Kressler, Lilianna Martinez, Holly Koehler, Sarah Hatfield, Giovanni Martinez

 

Why Dogs Howl

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Comedy/USA/ 5 min.

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After meeting online, a BOY and GIRL are out on their first date. It rapidly devolves into the BOY vomiting out his life in a Howl that ultimately encompasses the entire universe

 

 

Director: Sandi Johnson

Producer: Gary Teitelbaum

Writer: Gary Teitelbaum

 

 

Cast: Gary Teitelbaum, Hayley  O’Connor

Hit-Girl: A Kick-Ass Christmas Story

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Action/ USA / 25 min.


Mindy McCready is home alone on Christmas Eve when a gang of criminals invade her house looking for a stolen package. Mindy deals with them directly as her alter-ego, HIT-GIRL.


Director: Kevin Barile
Cast: Angie Estevao, Robert Dill

Jaunatis ​

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Experimental/ CHINA / 2:27min

 

‘Jaunatis’ in Lithuanian signifies the new moon, a celestial marker in the endless cycle of lunar phases. This rhythmic procession mirrors the cyclical nature of existence itself, where all things—day and night, the turning of the seasons, the eternal toil of Sisyphus—follow patterns of rise and fall, of beginnings and endings. These cycles may well encapsulate the essence of human experience or even embody the fundamental laws governing the universe, suggesting that perhaps our very being is intertwined with the cyclical nature of all that is. And we are trapped…

 

 

Director/Producer: Juno (Bing Qing Mou)

 

Cast: Ai Ping, Wu Yang

Dona Nobis Pacem

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Thriller / USA / 12 min.


Actaeon is interrogated by a detective following a grisly murder.

 

Director: Fritz Frauendorf
Producers: Fritz Frauendorf
Writer: Fritz Frauendorf

 

Cast: Remo Rivero, Cody Mango, Adam Boggs

Cats and Husbands

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Dramedy / USA / 7 min.

 

Fern and Marcie meet for coffee to celebrate what seems like a birthday but is the anniversary of something much deeper, in this bittersweet comedy about the challenges of family: 

those who have, those who have not and those… who have issues!

 

Director: Grace Samson and Barry Samson

Producers: Jane Samson and Grace Samson

Writer: Grace Samson

 

Cast: Rae Cofsky, Vanessa Simon, Boon Grigsby, Yelizaveta Sorkin,

           Marine De Vachon, Lucas Valladier De Vachon, Daniel Shapiro

She

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Drama / USA / 4 min.

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The inner monologue of a woman over the course of a couple weeks.

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Director: Chelsea Newman

Producers: Ken Tolbert, Jared Goetz

Writer: Chelsea Newman

 

Cast: Chelsea Newman, Cali Levasseur 

It Was Only You

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Drama- Fantasy / USA/ 5min

 

"It Was Only You" transports us back to Verona - for a powerful touch - a glimpse- a reverent homage to the most famous of all teen love stories - transcendent.

The timeless truth and pain of first... and sometimes last love.

Told by the only one who truthfully can - a 15-year-old girl.

 

Director: Eva Ariel Binder

Producers: Mark Binder, Max Karpylev, Eva Ariel Binder

Writer: Eva Ariel Binder

 

Cast: Eva Ariel Binder, Rio Mangini

Elegy for the Future

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Sci-Fi / USA / 15 min.

 

In an alternate technocratic future, Sybil, a digital sex worker, struggles to find meaning in a isolated world due to a global climate crisis. Everything changes when she meets Ophelia, an AI created from a once living being.

 

Director: Christina Phensy

Producers: Sue Ann Pien, Jordan Hull, Meg Risley

Writer: Christina Phensy

 

Cast: Sue Ann Pien, Jordan Hull, Anna Mongeluzo, Arden Lassalle

AUDITORIUM 4

SHORTS 8 - Saturday, September 14:      1:30pm

The man who revealed the secret of Stradivari

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Documentary / Hungary / 20 min.

 

The story of a Hungarian violin maker who spent decades of his life to figure out why Stradivari’s violins are so much better than any other violins in the world.

 

Director: Bella Trost

Producers: Bella Trost, Adam Trost

Writer: Bella Trost

 

Cast: Károly Péteri – violin maker

Sitting in Silence

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Drama / USA / 8 min.

 

After Emmy goes through a traumatic experience at a New Year's party, her lifelong best friend, Claire, brings her to a secret spot to help her heal.

 

Director: Steph Martinez

Producers: Amy Cosby, Gemma Ryan

Writer: Gemma Ryan

 

Cast: Siena Solinda, Gemma Ryan, Coby Larinde

Familiar Refrain

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Drama / Canada / 10 min.

 

When a former singer learns the news of her best friend's engagement, she must confront the reality of her misguided choices in order to rediscover her voice.

 

Director: David Joshi

Producers: Ariel Bond, Brooke Storry, Riley Walsh, David Joshi

Writer: Ariel Bond

 

Cast: Ariel Bond, Anesha Bailey

The River

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Drama / USA / 14 min.

 

Off the Gila River Indian Reservation, Rocky Camu secretly sells a family heirloom in an attempt to prove her worth to her daughter and aunt. The resiliency of family is tested as her hidden addiction returns to the surface.

 

Director: Clare Cooney

Producer: Rainbow Dickerson

Writer: Claude Jackson Jr

 

Cast: Jennifer Bobiwash, Rainbow Dickerson, Geoff Marslett, Susanna Osife

Ojue

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Drama / Panamá / 13 min.

 

A panamanian fashion designer living in the US, who is embarrassed about her culture, is forced to bring her dad with dementia (who is convinced that he is still in Panama) to her most important exhibition.​

 

Director: Fernando Broce

Producers: Mariel Garcia Spooner, Darlene Darma

Writer: Fernando Broce

 

Cast: Ingrid de Icaza, Eustiquio Broce

A Divine Journey 

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Documentary / USA / 24 min.

 

Striving to overcome the hardships of living at a refugee camp all her life, Divine Mugisha is determined to create positive change for people living at the camp. On a mission to provide education access and mental health services to vulnerable communities, Divine recognizes she must now leave home to pursue her own education to better serve her community.

 

Director: Annette M. King, Ivanovitch Ingabire

Producers: Annette M. King

Writers:  Annette M. King, Oliver Brown, Sujin Jung, Aya Troyer, Dylan Guss

 

Cast:  Divine Mugisha

AUDITORIUM 3

FEATURE - Saturday, September 14:        3pm

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Sunflowers in the Rain

Documentary / USA – UKRAINE / 95 min.

 

Rather than leave or give up hope, civilians in Ukraine tirelessly volunteer, work,

and create in the face of war, and in doing so, reveal how their lives and philosophies have changed during their quests to help the country resist Russian aggression.

 

Director: Aaron MacCarley

Producer: Aaron MacCarley

Director of Photography: Bohdan Rozumnyi

AUDITORIUM 4

FEATURE - Saturday, September 14:      3:45pm

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Happy Holidays

Drama / USA / 74 min.

After moving across the country for college to pursue her art, Clarissa (Mary Fae Smith) returns home years later, accompanied by her fiance and unartistic pillar of support Charles (Robert Walters.) There, she is confronted by the life she left behind, including her first love and muse, Thomas (Jeff Whitlatch.) Despite her best efforts to run from the past, Clarissa must face the long-simmering but inevitable collision between her love for Thomas, Charles, and her life’s passion, painting.


Director: Sassy Mohen
Producers: Ross Mathy, Sassy Mohen, Dillon Morris
Writer: Sassy Mohen

Edited by: Ross Mathy & Nate Orloff
 

Composer: Ludwig Göransson

AUDITORIUM 3

SHORTS 9 - Saturday, September 14:       5:15pm

Bajo La Tierra

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Drama – Magical Realism / USA / 17 min

 

After tragically losing her mother while she was busy working, an obsessed pottery maker goes to unhealthy measures to bury her grief with more work; a task that becomes increasingly difficult when her own home becomes mysteriously consumed by dirt.

 

Director: Pablo Guillen

Producers: Mon Castro, Daniel Radzinsky

Writer: Pablo Guillen

 

Cast: Susana Boyce, Ivette Gonzalez

CUT

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A breathtaking flamenco-dancer tries to navigate a world of constant gazes, trying to adjust, and live up to the way the world sees her. A unique dance film shot on Super 8, Super 16, 35mm and 65mm analog film. Directed by Jesper Tønnes & starring Selene Muñoz.

Eat That Up, It's Good for You

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Drama / USA / 7 min


In preparation for her dream job interview at her favorite magazine, Flora, a talented but insecure twenty year old, gets swallowed up by her anxieties, forcing her to face her past in order to move forward.


Director: Camila Noriega
Producers: Grace Abbate, Camila Noriega
Writer: Camila Noriega

 

Cast: Shannon Gisela

Mr. Man's Piano

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Comedy / USA / 8 min.


Queer couple Molly and Rebecca have the “purrfect” family: wife, wife, and cat. Until one stormy night, when their bubble of domesticity is punctured by their cat-child’s piano taking on a life of its own.


Director: Stephanie Williams
Producers: Marisa Hood, Stephanie Williams
Writer: Marisa Hood

 

Cast: Marisa Hood, Rachel Paulson

Pee Pee Platter

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Comedy / USA / 10 min.


Pete, a waiter at a restaurant in his hometown, plots revenge on the bully who traumatized him in high school.

 

Director: Jon Conklin
Producers: Jeremy Koenig, Johnny Komar
Writer: Jon Conklin

 

Cast: Sarah Wisser, AJ Urias, Jess Kellner, TL Flint, Robert Wilde

Bathroom Break

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Comedy / USA / 7 min.

 

Two girls break into an apartment to use the bathroom.

 

Director: Brandon Okumura

Producers: Brandon Okumura, Alyssa Leanne So

Writer: Alyssa Leanne So, Brandon Okumura

 

Cast: Jordan Nguyen, Alyssa Leanne So, Nathan Horowitz

Once More, Like Rain Man

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USA / Comedy / 15 minutes  

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‘It’s up to you to make a future that has you in it…’ We follow Zoe (Martinez) and her dad, Gerry (Jones) in a ‘day in the life’ of an autistic actress running the gambit of stereotypes she has to deal with - and her dad’s battle in supporting her forging that path for herself - in a funny, frustrating, painful and sometimes triumphantly sarcastic kind of way.

 

Director: Sue Ann Pien 

 

Producer: Suzann Ellis Spurgeon, Darren Dean, Bella Zoe Martinez 

 

Cast: Bella Zoe Martinez, Matt Jones, Joe Mantegna, James Paxton, Sosie Bacon, and Sue Ann Pien

 

Writer: Bella Zoe Martinez, Melissa J Martinez-Areffi, Andrew John Areffi 

GAYLE fmk (with blackbear)

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Comedy / United Kingdom / 4min

 

This bright and colourful dark comedy sees miniature Gayle and blackbear failing at being good neighbours in the most extravagant ways. Think Celebrity Deathmatch meets Groundhog Day, a playful stop motion tale of human behaviour gone wrong.

 

Story by Chris Ullens

Produced by Jade Bogue
Directed, animated, edited by Chris Ullens

Director of Photography Jamie Durand
Art Director Brin Frost

Lead Model Maker Beattie Fartley Model Maker Connor Chung Model Maker Rosie Tonkin

Character 3D printing Julian Clark Studios Grading by Matthew James Day

Shot at Clapham Road Studios special thanks to Daisy Garside

Video Commissioner Trevor Joseph Newton

AUDITORIUM 4

FEATURE - Saturday, September 14:      6:15pm

Fault

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Drama / USA / 10 min.

 

In a poignant last conversation, a woman confronts her lover about his hidden relationship status, realizing she's unknowingly been the other woman. As emotions flare and truths unravel, they grapple with the depth of their connection and the consequences of deception, navigating the delicate balance between love and betrayal.

 

 

Director: Steph Martinez

Producers: Amy Cosby, Ian Neville

Writer: Ian Neville

 

Cast: Rio Magdaleno, Ian Neville

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Let's Both Try

Drama / USA / 77 min.

 

Embarking on a wild romp through the Arizona deserts, a photographer-couple's relationship is pushed to its limits as they navigate a morally charged exploration of sexuality and divine meaning in modern life.

 

Director: Dave Hill

Producer: Dave Hill

Writer: Dave Hill

 

Cast: Olivia Hytha, Michael Davis, Amanda Fronckowiak, Robert Fabiani, Cyndal Mckay, Taye Anne Rose, Thea Henry