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2018

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Block 1 @ 1:15 PM

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You

Director: Gabriele Fabbro

Country: United States

RT: 3min

Synopsis: Derek Andrew Ramsay, Ydalie Turk, Maryna Kovalevska, Velvet Rhodes, Don Baldaramos, Isabela Valotti, Syuzanna Avetisyan, Meave Thompson Osgood Trailer...

Instinct

Director: Gavin McFarland

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: During a hunting trip with his overbearing father, Jason is given the opportunity to prove himself a man....

Defining Moments

Director: Rachelle Henry, Conrad Wrobel

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: What are the defining moments in a relationship? A cinematic journey through the highs and lows in the life and love of three couples....

THE LAST SILENCE

Director: Jacky Song

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: A psychotic artist hides her daughter’s dead body in the garage, dresses up for her and rapes his ‘innocent’ wife after she accidentally murders her own daughter. Unexpectedly, suffering excessive trauma and physical assault, the hopeless wife chooses to suicide after executing her beloved husband....

Crossroads

Director: Marvin Nuecklaus

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: When a young woman is interrogated, she must relive the traumatic events of a brutal crime in order to discover the assailant’s true identity....

Laughing Branches

Director: Mithra Malek

Country: UK

RT: 14min

Synopsis: When a theory about parallel universes causes a struggling actor, Joe, to be anxious about his decisions and future, we watch the different outcomes of the same conversation about the multiverse between him and his girlfriend, in different universes, and the way this one conversation results in vastly different futures for the two characters in these parallel universes....

A Chick Flick

Director: Lucy McKendrick

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: A young woman is forced to reconnect with her hippie mother in order to euthanize their beloved pet chicken after it is mauled by a fox....

Professional Cuddler

Director: Mika Orr

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: A young Israeli man is about to meet his long-distance lover for the first time– while pursuing his dreams in NYC playing the trumpet by day and working as a Professional Cuddler by night. Will they be able to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds?...

faery

Director: Alexis Rosinsky

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: An immortal child fights to understand the ageless struggle between mothers and daughters. Faery is a poignant and mysterious drama from 14 year old Writer/Director Alexis Rosinsky....

Block 2 @ 1:30 PM

Unknown Distance

Director: Gordon Clark

Country: United States

RT: 94min

Synopsis: Without a crew, carrying only a video camera and a sudden and compelling commitment to understand and document their story, filmmaker, Gordon Clark, takes us on a journey with Marine Sniper, Sgt. Douglas Brown, across America, filming and bearing witness to the stories of this returning combat vet and his fellow soldiers. How do they fit back into a society that supported them when they enlisted, but became ambivalent when they returned to a country they killed to defend?...

My Grandfather’s Memory Book

Director: Colin Levy

Country: United States

RT: 4min

Synopsis: A personal reflection about an unusual sketchbook that captures a lifetime of memories, connecting three generations through drawings, writings and dialogue....

The Last Man You Meet

Director: Chris Bone

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: “The Last Man You Meet” was inspired by the title sequence from HBO’s “Six Feet Under” and offers an exclusive look inside the funeral business. Driven by original music and the gravelly voice over of a third-generation mortician reflecting on his life, the short portrays the everyday only a few choose to experience....

The Mukuru Art Boyz

Director: Angela R. Pashayan

Country: Kenya

RT: 26min

Synopsis: Five untrained artists living on the streets of Nairobi, Kenya form a family and grow up together creating incredible pieces of art that no one sees. They do not have permits to sell to tourists so they create art for the love of art itself while living amidst the darkness of the Mukuru Slum. Follow the stories of their lives and how they survived together from childhood to young adult. See their struggles and triumphs while viewing their beautiful art in the slum setting of Mukuru....

Block 3 @ 3:30 PM

Bloom

Director: Paul Joseph

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: Bloom follows Annabelle, an inexperienced model, during her first professional shoot. Though young, she possess untapped potential that captures the interest of Jean, a well-known fashion photographer. Everything seems to be going smoothly until Jean’s assistant, Olivia, arrives at the studio. As Olivia questions Jean’s decision to shoot a model of Annabelle’s caliber, Annabelle’s confidence takes a hit. How far will she allow herself to be pushed in order to prove her worth?...

Destination: Dewsbury

Director: Jack Spring

Country: UK

RT: 98min

Synopsis: Four middle aged men, joined only by their childhood friendship, take a calamitous road trip across the UK to visit their dying friend for one last time. Rude, crude and damm right funny, Destination: Dewsbury mixes ‘The Inbetweeners’ schoolboy banter with a dollop of fast paced storytelling and heart wrenching truths....

Block 4 @ 4:15 PM

After the End

Director: Jonathan Reyes

Country: United States

RT: 4min

Synopsis: A husband decides how he’ll remember his wife after she dies....

Pause

Director: Ryan Glauser

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: When faced with an imminent nuclear threat, a family reminisces about simpler, happy times in order to make peace with their devastating reality. Pause.. It’s not too late....

Julianne

Director: Braden Friedman

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: After following her ex with another woman, Julianne shows up at his apartment to try and put their relationship back together, but after a series of self-induced injuries, Julianne is on the cusp of emotional and physical exhaustion....

EverLife

Director: Steven Wilson

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: After an untimely death, Francis begins a new chapter as a digital copy. His wife and teenage daughter can only interact with him using Augmented Reality Glasses. While his wife wishes she could be closer to him, his daughter wants nothing to do with him. Francis, on the other hand, will do anything to keep his family together....

THE FIRST OF MANY

Director: Pamela Guest and Elizabeth Guest

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: A student actress goes on her first audition with disastrous results....

Bless Me Father

Director: Paul M Horan

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: In a small Irish town where secrets are rare, a local man goes to church to confess his....

17 Locust St

Director: Daniel Wyland

Country: United States

RT: 17min

Synopsis: Detective Sarah Carver and her in-training partner James Brilant want to ask the loner Darcell Kerry a few questions about a recent hit-and-run. Little do the detectives know they will find themselves trapped in Darcell’s own dark agenda, and become victims of a twisted mind from which there seems no escape....

Latched

Director: Justin Harding & Rob Brunner

Country: Canada

RT: 17min

Synopsis: A choreographer pursues creative inspiration at a cottage retreat while attempting to wean her demanding toddler — and unknowingly awakens a vile fairy corpse in the process. When she discovers the creature’s terrifying intentions, she will have to put her creativity to good use to lure the repugnant beast....

Block 5 @ 5:45 PM

The White House

Director: Fabia Mendoza

Country: Germany

RT: 75min

Synopsis: Rosa Parks’ house is set to be demolished, a man battling cancer is stuck between two abandoned houses, and the partial removal of a house in Detroit where dilapidated houses abound, somehow creates a scandal. In a time in which cartoon characters rule the world, values are shifted and lost. Ex-patriot artist Ryan Mendoza walks into a battlefield of racial tension, and political rot as he attempts to bring a home resembling the one he used to live in as a child in America, to where he now lives, in Berlin. The White House Documentary follows his interaction with the inhabitants of Detroit, from Gregg Johnson who donated a house for his art project on Stoepel Street, to Rosa Parks’ niece Rhea McCauley who allowed him to ship a house her aunt had lived in overseas. Ironically, from a country set on building a wall, the city in which the Rosa Parks’ house would be rebuilt was itself reborn of a wall being taken down. The White House Documentary is an offbeat homage to Detroit, a city unwilling to surrender....

People of the Forest: Orang Rimba

Director: Isaac Kerlow

Country: Singapore

RT: 14min

Synopsis: In the short span of three decades the nomadic People of the Forest, Orang Rimba in their dialect, have watched their ancestral forests vanish. Oil palm plantations have replaced much of the tropical peatland rain forests in Jambi, Indonesia, and the Orang Rimba have nowhere to go....

Glass Temples

Director: Amanda Stoddard

Country: United States

RT: 32min

Synopsis: Three brave siblings embark on a journey to reclaim their childhood, confront the man who stole it, and try to change an entrenched system of patriarchy in the LDS Church by repairing their broken family. This is a fractured portrait of the shattered lives of sexual abuse victims. As Kristy and her siblings tried to piece together their lives, their father lived an unscathed new life in full admission of his guilt for thirty years. This film documents how several children were put within the hands of a recognized child abuser by a trusted system of moral correction....

Block 6 TUESDAY @ 1:30 PM

Cuban Heart

Director: Jake Ajamian

Country: United States

RT: 33min

Synopsis: In the year 2000, after almost forty years of exile in California, Armando Blanco was faced with the decision as to whether he should stay true to his moral duty, thus refusing to set foot again in communist Cuba, or to embrace the love he had for his dying brother. Armando found his way back to Cuba for one day to find himself once again amongst his own, immersed in hours full of joy and song. It was an unforgettable experience in the company of his loved ones who from that moment on, he would never see again....

Jamaica Man

Director: Michael Weatherly

Country: United States

RT: 65min

Synopsis: JAMAICA MAN is a subjective documentary profile of British expat Nigel Pemberton directed by Michael Weatherly. Inspired narratively by Spalding Gray and visually by Slim Aarons, the film is a highly stylized and unconventional portrait of a raconteur nearing the end of his life....

Block 7 @ 6:45 PM

Warrior

Director: Gene Pina

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: A disabled Army combat vet struggles to raise her three boys while dealing with the loss of her leg and substance abuse....

Scent

Director: Eric Staples

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: A dying man receives a kidney transplant that saves him but takes the life of the donor, leaving him in a perpetual search for permission to move on. After some time, a new woman enters his life and urges him to move out of his apartment. On moving day, he unboxes a memory that, once again, triggers his grief, but this time he’s given an ultimatum....

THE LESSON

Director: Joey Medina

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: A man has a motional breakdown when he loses his wife and daughter to a texting and driving accident. He takes the law in his own hands to teach the other driver a lesson he will never forget....

Bikini Blue

Director: Juliusz Machulski

Country: Poland

RT: 84min

Synopsis: BIKINI BLUE is a UK based Post War drama, where an English wife and a Polish husband look to build a new life in Britain, only for his past to come back to haunt them. Dora, a young English woman, starts her old, worn-out motorcycle to visit her Polish exile husband in the asylum after his failed suicide attempt. It won’t be just a peaceful and romantic evening – we are following Dora’s trip into the heart of her husband’s mystery....

Block 8 @ 6:45 PM

Dear Erik

Director: Bryan Wetzel, Ben Starkman

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: Erik D. Madden fell in love with the silver screen at a young age and in the 1980s decided to write to his favorite stars from Hollywood’s Golden Age. When a few actually wrote back, what started as a lark quickly became an obsession. In an age where instant digital communication is the norm, Erik sticks with the classic – a pen and paper. With his collection closing in on 20,000 letters and signed photographs, Erik tells his story for the first time....

Anine Bing

Director: Sophia Banks

Country: United States

RT: 4min

Synopsis: World-renowned Fashion Designer Anine Bing discusses her journey into the fashion world from a teenager into building, designing and running her own brand....

Christian Audigier the Vif

Director: Didier Beringuer

Country: United States

RT: 90min

Synopsis: This one-of-a-kind cinematic documentary presents the introspective life journey of fashion designer Christian Audigier, who created the 'Ed Hardy' brand based on the designs of famous American tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy. After being diagnosed with MDS, an aggressive form of blood cancer, Christian is forced to accept what lies ahead....

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Block 1 @ 1:15 PM

Block 2 @ 1:30 PM

Block 3 @ 3:30 PM

Block 4 @ 4:15 PM

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