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Block 1 @ 1:30 PM

By Way Of Guitar

Director: Na Liu

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: A washed up guitarist faces his music dreams fading until a young boy starts a public guitar competition....

Live Well

Director: Bingyu Jiang

Country: China

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Lao Zhang is an unsuccessful artist living on the edge of a metropolis. The burden of financial hardship and aging makes him desperate to secure an opportunity for an exhibition to showcase his work. When he fails to secure referrals from friends and professionals he barely knows, Lao Zhang eventually finds the courage to approach art galleries on his own....

Scratch

Director: Sam Shapiro

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: A young man goes on a self reflective journey to tell the last three women he has slept with that he has herpes, and that they should probably get tested, ASAP....

Nothing Takes The Place Of You

Director: Bingcen Li

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: A contemporary family drama centers around a father-son relationship, reconnection, and forgiving....

Ava

Director: Sahvannah Henry

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: Evans and his teenage daughter, Ava set out on their journey in a dystopian world where talking is obsolete and human communication is minimal because it comes with a significant cost....

San Miguel

Director: Cris Gris

Country: Mexico

RT: 21min

Synopsis: In order to heal her grieving mother, Ana, a devout 9-year-old girl, pushes her faith to its limit in hopes of divine intervention....

When The Shadow Falls

Director: Jeseung Woo

Country: United States

RT: 17min

Synopsis: After witnessing the suicide of a passing stranger, Jane becomes haunted by the horrible question: “Could I have done something? When the stranger’s widow comes calling, Jane must face her shadow to find the answer they both need....

Sonora

Director: Jesse Suchomel

Country: United States

RT: 19min

Synopsis: A veteran hit man named Leo drives his rusty Chevy through the bleak terrain of Nevada’s desert. He is on a mission that was given to him by his mob boss Hunt, a mission that will end in the death of a young girl. After discovering the young girl was part of Hunt’s underage sex trafficking ring, Leo disobeys his orders in an attempt to atone for past sins....

Block 2 @ 2 PM

I, Douglas Fairbanks

Director: Clara and Julia Kuperberg

Country: France

RT: 53min

Synopsis: Douglas Fairbanks’ life story unfolds with American history and the emergence of the film industry as backdrop. At a time when the country had no self-doubt, Fairbanks represented America with strength and confidence. He married America ́s Sweetheart, Mary Pickford and started United Artists Studio with Pickford, Chaplin, and Griffith. The film is Fairbank’s life in a first person narration....

The Pretender

Director: Jim Toscano

Country: United States

RT: 53min

Synopsis: Mike Kunda’s life was changed forever when he saw the movie ‘ROCKY’ at age 11. Almost 40 years later Mike and his family struggle to identify where Rocky Balboa ends and Mike begins....

Block 3 @ 3:30 PM

Chasing you

Director: Olivia Layhee

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: An adrift man must fall into the depths of drug abuse to resurrect his past lover, oblivious to the catastrophic consequences....

Fairytale

Director: Eli Hershko – Director, David Spaltro – Co Director

Country: United States

RT: 87min

Synopsis: Verity kills a monster and drifts eastward on borrowed time. She meets Bec, another lost & abused soul. Together the girls try to find peace in one another but not for long....

Block 4 @ 4 PM

Calm Down, Anny

Director: Huan Cheng

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: Anny realizes that sunflowers still grow at night despite her journey and aftermath of an emotional showdown....

Anchor Baby

Director: Shicong Zhu

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: A coming-of-age story of a punk teenage mom, Xiaomi, who is an undocumented immigrant from China. While preparing for the birth of her child, she contemplates stealing from a wealthy client at the nail salon where she works....

Clams Casino

Director: Pam Nasr

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: Can four Latina women whose lives are uniquely interwoven, overcome the barriers of insecurity and find a way to genuinely connect with each other?...

Valencia

Director: Chris Paraskevas

Country: Australia

RT: 10min

Synopsis: The Actor is in love with The Actress… but she has a boyfriend. The Actor asks The Filmmaker to create a romantic scene for him with The Actress. When the scene plays over and over, The Filmmaker becomes increasingly jealous of their on-screen relationship....

Skinny Ghost

Director: Nicolas Curcio

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: When two nerdy teens decide to attend a Halloween dance for the first time, they are confronted with young love, bullies, and even their own friendship. Because nothing is spookier than growing up....

Block 5 @ 5:30 PM

Light My Fire

Director: Bobb Barito

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: A vengeful father hunts down his daughter’s boyfriend on the Fourth of July....

An Evening At The Diner

Director: Daniel Zagayer

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: Three high school friends, Arthur, Lisa, and Nathan, concoct wild fantasies about an arguing couple seated at a diner booth beside them. The trio entertain imagined scenarios until an unexpected truth is ultimately revealed....

Kensington

Director: Matt Ferrucci

Country: United States

RT: 26min

Synopsis: Meet Doug Harper, an Ivy League educated, uptown therapist forced to move his practice to Kensington, the roughest blue collar section of Philadelphia. A place where “therapy” is foreign and the people eat lightning, shit thunder, and sure as hell thrive on confrontation....

Block 6 @ 6 PM

Remind Me

Director: Rachel Chavkin

Country: United States

RT: 8 min

Synopsis: REMIND ME is a poetically fractured meditation about a woman trying to stay connected to herself and her young children as her marriage dissolves. Under the influence and reproached by her increasingly flustered husband, they attempt therapy, but ultimately she finds her voice in a goodbye letter....

Undone

Director: Justine Stevens

Country: Canada

RT: 9min

Synopsis: A raw look at the unconventional experiences of an immigrant woman, trying to make it as a TV personality in LA....

Stall Boy

Director: Luke Toye

Country: Canada

RT: 10min

Synopsis: When a germaphobic thirteen-year-old boy grapples with an abusive father at home and relentless bullying at school, he must find the will to overcome his inner turmoil or be consumed by it....

Olympians

Director: Amit Gupta, Meghan Sunder

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: A dysfunctional family, Zeus, Aphrodite, and Ares adjust to their new lives as immigrants in modern day America. A satirical look through the eyes of Aphrodite in an updating of mythology and absurdist commentary on the events of today’s world....

The Golden People

Director: Victoria Garza

Country: Mexico

RT: 12min

Synopsis: The story of the founder of the Golden People, a movement which claims that one can live without eating by just feeding on sunlight and ultimately reach a higher level as a human being....

The Director’s Treatment

Director: Heinz Kobernik

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: After passionately delivering a TV commercial pitch for a local Indian supermarket, Agnes, a filmmaker from Milwaukee, must find a way to fit into her proposal the colorful requests of the client....

The Wight Christmas

Director: Levi A. Taylor

Country: United States

RT: 30min

Synopsis: After their father presumably commits suicide, a dysfunctional family come together for the holidays to unwrap skeletons from their closet....

Block 7 @ 7:30 PM

Unorganized Crime

Director: Nick Vallelonga

Country: United States

RT: 30min

Synopsis: Under-appreciated ‘family’ member Gino Corso is finally given an opportunity to prove himself worthy of New York’s fifth largest crime syndicate. What transpires is a dark yet humorous tale of a family seeking common ground, and their internal struggle to remain a family. Their fate will ultimately come down to their ability to count on one another. Even if the best of circumstances plays out, it may not be enough to save all of them....

Reborn

Director: Julian Richards

Country: United States

RT: 77min

Synopsis: A stillborn baby girl is abducted from the hospital by a morgue attendant and brought back to life using electrokinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday she escapes her captor and sets out to find her birth mother leaving a trail of destruction behind her....

Block 8 @ 8 PM

Blood Line: The Life And Times Of Brian Deegan

Director: Paul Taublieb, Susan Cooper

Country: United States

RT: 80min

Synopsis: In this adrenaline-soaked documentary, we follow the legendary life and career of motocross superstar Brian Deegan, one of the most admired action sports athletes in history, as he transitions from an edgy, gravity-defying rebel to becoming a father to the next generation of motorsports stars....

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