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Block 1 at 3:00 PM in Theater 1

Photovoltaic

Director: Tommy Tang, Audrey Seda

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: An exploration of how the adoption of large-scale solar power can combat climate change and bring social good to people all around the world. We follow women solar engineers from developing countries, a stand-up economist, and the Dean of the College of the Environment at the University of Washington to learn about how this technology connects with other social issues....

The Bee Keeper

Director: Briana Gallo

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: 35 years ago, “Doc” was a cripple – that is until he tried bee sting therapy (Apitherapy) in Maine. Since then, the 97 year-old retired dentist has lived an active and adventurous life – opening his home daily to treat and connect with a host of characters, lifelong friends and loved ones....

Food From the Sky

Director: Jai Ashar

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: With the world stricken by hunger and poverty, I go on a journey to find a solution. I meet all types of people ranging from farmers to government officials to see what the world has been doing to make a change. Through my journey, I find various technologies that can improve the food people get by allowing the common farmer to work with better equipment....

La Muneca Fea (The Ugly Doll)

Director: George Reyes, Claudia Lopez Garcia

Country: Mexico

RT: 88min

Synopsis: Twenty-five elderly and active sex workers in Mexico City, between the ages of sixty and ninety, seek peace and community behind the walls of Casa Xochiquetzal, a shelter established for them by a former colleague and friend. The home is named for the Aztec goddess of flowers, beauty and sexual love....

Block 2 at 5:00 PM in Theater 2

Where Have You Gone Lou DiMaggio?

Director: Brad Kuhlman

Country: United States

RT: 75min

Synopsis: From 1985 to 1989, Lou DiMaggio, no relation to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, was a regular at the iconic ‘Catch a Rising Star’ comedy club in New York City. For four years, Lou worked along side of and made lasting friendships with a small group of comedians who are some of the very best in the business. Larry David, Colin Quinn, Suzie Essman, Joy Behar, Jeff Garlin and Chris Rock are just a few of Lou’s old pals who appear in the film. After all this time, can Lou rediscover his comedic voice and once again become relevant in the world of comedy?...

Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches

Director: Robert de Young

Country: United States

RT: 80min

Synopsis: With his recent role is in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards, Rod Taylor also featured in many influential films: The VIP’s, The Birds, The Time Machine, 36 Hours, Sunday in New York, Young Cassidy, The Glass Bottom Boat, Hotel, and Zabriski Point. He was one of the first leading actors to voice a Disney animated character when he portrayed the hero, Pongo, in 101 Dalmatians. The film features Maggie Smith, Tippi Hedren, Angela Lansbury, Veronica Cartwright, Baz Luhrmann, Stephan Elliott, Susie Porter, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, Keith Michell, and Rod himself....

Block 3 at 5:45 PM in Theater 1

The Call

Director: Ethan Jahan

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: At home in his apartment, the man obsessively cuts out stories of war and terror from newspapers while the TV news blares. He meticulously tapes the cuttings to the walls of his living room, which are already covered in hundreds of articles. A ringing cuts through the sound of the TV and, after fishing through the sea of papers carpeting the floor, the man uncovers an old style telephone and lifts the receiver. The call is from the authority, who tells him his city is under attack, and that he should lock all doors and windows for his own safety....

The Followers of Gilgamesh

Director: Abdul Jabbar Maki

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: After the death of his father, a 12 year old boy devises a risky plan to find out why he was never allowed into his father’s room. With questions still surrounding the cause of his father’s death, the truth that lies in the bedroom will shake the foundation of everything the boy ever knew....

The Little Dictator

Director: Nurith Cohn

Country: Israel

RT: 29min

Synopsis: Professor Yossi Kleinmann, a religious Jew, gets stuck with a calamitous mustache at the 90th birthday party of his wife’s grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. The rest is history....

A Big Love

Director: Max Chicco

Country: United States

RT: 30min

Synopsis: Osvaldo Caforio is an old watchmaker, who is still in love with his wife Rosetta. One morning, as he is getting ready to go renew his identity card. Arrived at the civil register’s office, the attendant informs him that he can’t renew his identity card because, according to the electronic system, he’s dead. Osvaldo is at a loss and he doesn’t know what to do. The representative informs him that he has to follow protocol 25/A: he has to be reborn! And that’s exactly what happens. Osvaldo is reborn into the world and he finds himself in an infant’s body!...

Block 4 at 7:45 PM in Theater 2

The Nest Egg

Director: Lucy Patrick Ward

Country: UK

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Ernie is a widower with a windfall. He wants his wife, not the cash and comes up with an ingenious plan to find a deserving person to give it to. Tracey and her daughter, Amy, have each other but no money. Could fate and eggs bring them all together? The Nest Egg: the story of a chicken suit, benevolence and eggs....

Atomic Couple!

Director: Rodrigo Espinosa

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Maggie Adams, a once promising nurse, is forced to confront the realities of her marriage when nuclear war breaks out and sets off a series of unexpected events that offer her a glimmer of hope to returning to who she yearns to be....

Wan Mei (Perfect)

Director: Yiyi Yin

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: When a man realizes his girlfriend has been unfaithful to him, he resorts to revenge… and the love of a mannequin....

Waste

Director: Justine Raczkiewicz

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: Roger lives a grim and detached life, picking up medical waste for a living, but looks forward to his evening conversations with his quirky roommate and foodie, Olive. But as the meals become increasingly strange, and push the limits of curiosity, Roger must ask himself how far he will go for love?...

The Curse of Don Scarducci

Director: Chris Fondulas

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: Life is good for Don, a rough and tumble mobster, until the day he discovers his intolerance to gluten, and can no longer enjoy the staples of his everyday mobster diet. As his food habits change, so do his demeanor and lifestyle, but it all goes south when his mob family discovers his new life....

Susie Sunshine

Director: Chelsea O’Connor

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: In an alternate world, imbued with the style and sensibilities of our 1950’s, Martin Energy maintains it’s position of power by dominating the energy market with its unique process of harnessing women’s emotional intelligence and strength to generate resources such as sunshine, electricity, and fire....

Block 5 at 8:15 PM in Theater 1

The Shadow Hours

Director: Kyle Higgins

Country: United States

RT: 19min

Synopsis: A Neo-Noir following twin brothers born with a mysterious condition: only one of them can be awake at a time. Posing as one person, each awake for only half of a day, they make a living as private investigators… until a budding romance threatens to ruin their lives...

Cuckold Picasso

Director: Lance Larson

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: “A powerful, jolting experience to the senses that forces the viewer into introspection.”- Persis LOVE, Oaxaca FilmFest Pablo Picasso’s “1971 Harlequin Head”, thought forever lost in a Romanian fire, is found vividly alive in the disturbed psyche of a tortured man’s soul. It is necessary to open a third eye–necessary to dare to look straight on at the things we need to face. In doing so, we free ourselves to embrace and learn from the things we are prone to unnecessarily fear the most....

Conspiracy PIE

Director: Levi A. Taylor

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: Get ready for a nostalgic ride down memory lane to a time life was filled with Legos, video games and imaginative questions you’d muse with your best friend. Conspiracy P.I.E. reflects on friendship while reminding us to “never stop being that kid that asks why after everything.”...

Other People’s Heads

Director: Stephen Winterhalter

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: Set in a grotesquely decadent world, 12 legal officials are presiding over guillotine executions that go bizarrely wrong when the prisoners have an unexpected reaction to death. The officials have to then come to terms with the unbelievable horror they witness....

Mest’

Director: Morgan Roberts

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Chett is abused by his parents and beat up at school until a classmate’s family takes him in and teaches him to protect himself....

JIMBO

Director: Rodrigo Zanforlin

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: An young weird and abused man, break free from his oppressor father after they robbed a bank....

The Pretender

Director: Nathan Morse

Country: United States

RT: 26min

Synopsis: Desperate to live life in a wheelchair, an unlikely friendship mobilizes this solitary man to cut off what’s been holding him back....

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Block 1 at 3:00 PM in Theater 1

Block 2 at 5:00 PM in Theater 2

Block 3 at 5:45 PM in Theater 1

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